KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF OXFORDSHIRE - 1895

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PREFACE. THE Directory of the Counties of Berks, Bucks and Oxon is intended to form a sequel to the Directory of the Six Home Counties, being equally closely connected with the Metropolis, and largely occupied by the residences of the Professional and Mercantile classes of London. The contents are similar to those in previous editions a general account is given of each County, with the Hundreds and Poor Law Unions; the Members of the ''CouNTY CoUNCILs," created under the Local Government Act, 1888, are included, also Lists of Magistrates; and a sketch of the Geological Features of each County, by Mr. W. J. Harrison: then follow, alphabetically arranged, the Places in each County, with their Inhabitants, both Private Residents and Commercial; it is stated under each Parish the Division of the County, as formed under the provisions of the "Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885," and in what Hundred. Union, and County Court District it is situated, as also the Diocese, Archdeaconry, and Rural Deanery; and the College and University of every Beneficed Clergyman have been given, as far as they can be ascertained : the names of the Parish Oler ks are shown under each Parish ; lists of Farm Bailiffs of Gentlemen farming their own land are included ; and the population, from the Census of 1891, is inserted. New Maps, on a large scale, specially prepared, are prefixed. The Proprietors have again to return their thanks to those Clergymen, Magistrates' Clerks, Registrars, and other Gentlemen who have assisted the Agents while collecting the information. ***The Letters S.O. and R.S.O. at the end of addresses in various parts of the book are abbreviations adopted by H. M. Post Office to represent Sub-Office and Railway Sub-Office; and if these Initial letters, with the name of the County, are added to the addresses of letters in lieu of the usual name of Post Town, the delivery of such letters will be accelerated. PUBLISHING OFFICE, 182, 183 & 184, HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, W.C, May, 1895. oxox. a 2

INDEX TO I~ELL Y'S OXFORDSHIRE DIRECTORY. PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGB Adder bury .•. ... ............ 11 Beacon's Bottom, see Chadlington ...... . .. .... ... 62 Crowmarsh Battle, see Addison's Walk, see Stokenchurch ............ 279 Chalford, see Aston Bensington ............... 40 Oxford..................... 136 Bear Garden,see Ban bury 24 Rowant .... ... .. .... ...... 16 Crowmarsh Gifford ...... 8o Adwell........................ 12 Beckley ..................... 39 Chalford, see Enstone ... go Cuddesdon .................. 8o AI bury........................ 12 Begbroke ..................... 39 Chalgrove ... ...... ... ... . ... 63 Culham ... ............ ... ... 81 Alchester, see Wendle- Bensington, or Benson... 40 Charlbury.................... 64 Cumnor Hill, see Oxford. 142 bury ........................ 297 Berrick Salome ... .... ..... 41 Charlton-on-Otmoor ... .. • 65 Cur bridge, see Witney ... 302 Alkerton ..................... 12 Berwick Prior, see New- Charterville, see Minster Cutteslowe .................. 81 Alvescot ... ... ............. ... IS ington ..................... 137 Lovell ...................... 135 Cuxham ...... ............ ... 82 Ambrosden ... ... ... ... ...... 13 Bicester ... . .. ...... . .. . ..... 41 Chastleton ... .... .. . .. ...... . 66 Danes More, see Banbury 24 Ardley ... ... ......... ... ...... 14 Binfield Heath, see Duns· Chastleton Barrow, see Dean, see Spelsbury ...... 273 Arncott-Upper & Lower den ........................ 88 Chastleton ............... 66 Dean Field, see Henleyor Over & Nether, see Binfield Heath, see Ship- Checkendon.................. 66 upon-'fhames ... ; ........ 105 Ambrosden ... ... ...... ... 14 lake......................... 268 Chest- Hill - Acre, see Deddington... ... ... .•. ... ... 82 Ascott, see Little Milton . 134 Binsey .... ........ ... ...... ... 46 • Stonesfield ................ 28o Delly End, see Hailey ... 99 Ascott, or Ascott-under- Bix . .. . .. ... ...... ... ... . ... .. 46 Chesterton-Gt. & Little. 67 Den ton, see Cuddesdon... 8o Wychwood ............... I4 Black Bourton ............ 51 Chilson,seeShorthampton 270 Devil's Coits, see Stanton Assenden-Lower & Mid- Blackthorn, see Am· Chilworth, see Gt. Milton I33 Harcourt .................. 276 dle, F.;ee llix............... 46 brosden .................. I4 Chimney, see Bampton Dike Hill, see Dorchester 85 Assenden - Upper, see Bladon ..................... 46 Aston.......... ............. 20 Ditchley, see Spelsbury .. 273 Pyrton ..................... 262 Blandford Park, see Corn- Chinnor .... ........ ...... .... 67 Dodd's Plain, see Asthall I5 Asterleigh,seeKiddington 122 bury Park ............... 76 Chipping Norton ......... 68 Dorchester ...... ............ 84 Asthall...... .................. IS Blenheim ..................... 47 Chipping burst, see Cud- Draycott, see Waterstock 294 Asthall barrow, see Ast- Bletchington, or Blech- desdon ................... 8o Drayton (near Banbury). 86 hall .. . . ..... ............ ... 15 ingdon . .. .... .. .... ...... .. 48 Chiselhampton ........ .... 73 Drayton St. Leonard Asthall Le:gh, see Asthall xs Bloxham ..................... 49 Chisilton,see Chiselhamp- (near Wallingfurd) ... 86 Aston, see BamptonAston 20 Bodicote ............. ... ..... SI ton .. .... ........ ...... .... 73 Druid's Temple, see HenAston-Middle,seeSteeple Botley, see Oxford ......... IS2 Christ Church Meadow, Jey-upon-Thames ...... I07 Aston ..................... 17 Bould, see Idbury ......... II9 see Oxford ............... , 176 Ducklington ............... 87 Aston-North .... ........ 15 Bourton Abbots,see Black Christmas Common, see Duns 'few .................. 88 Aston Rowant .............. 16 Bourton ................... 51 Watlington ............... 295 Dunsden ..................... 88 Aston-Steeple ............ 16 Bourton-Black ......... 51 Church Cowley ............ 77 Dunthrop, see Heythrop. II4 Attington .................. 17 Bourton--Great & Little 52 Church Enstone, see Easington .................. 88 Bablocke-Hythe,see Stan- Brad well ..................... 52 Enstone .................. go Easington, see Banbury.. 24 ton Harcourt ............ 275 Brighthampton,seeBamp· Church Green,see Witney 30I East Adderbury, see AdBacon's Bottom, see ton Aston...... ............ 20 Church Handborough,see derbury ...... ...... ...... n Stokenchurcb ............ 279 Brightwell Baldwin ...... 52 Handborough ............ IOI East End,see NorthLeigh 127 Badgemore Hill, see Brightwell Upper Town, Churchill..................... 73 East Shutford ............... 270 Henley-upon-Thames .• 105 see Brightwell Baldwin 53 Clanfield ..................... 74 Elsfield............ ......... 89 Bagley Wood, see Oxford I42 Britwell Prior............... 53 Clare, see Pyrton ......... 262 Emmer Green,see CaverBainton, see Stoke Lyne. 277 Britwell Salome ............ 53 Clattercote .................. 74 sham ..................... 61 Baldon-Little, see Toot Brize Norton........... ...... 53 Claydon ..................... 75 Emmington,or Emington 89 Baldon ... ................ I8 Broad Walk, see Oxford .. 1S6 Cleeve, see Goring ...... 98 Enslow, see Bletchingdon 49 Baldon-Marsh ............ 17 Broadwell, see Bradwell.. 52 Cleveley, see Enstone ... go Enstone ...................... 89 Baldon-Toot, see Toot Brookhampton, see New- Clifton, see Deddington.. 83 Epwell, see Swalcliffe ... 281 Baldon ... ... ... ... ... ... 18 ington ... ...... ... ... ...... 137 Clifton Hampden .. ... .... 7 5 Ewelme ... ... ... ... ... ... ... go Baldwyn Brightwell, see Broughton ................ 54 Cogges, or Coggs ......... 76 Eye, see Dunsden ......... 88 Bright well Bald win ... 52 Broughton Pogis ......... 55 Collins' End, see Goring Eynsham .... .. .... ...... ... 91 Balscote, see Wrox:ton ... 313 Bruern, see Milton- Heath ........ ......... .... 99 .Fair Mile, see HenleyBampton ..................... I8 under-Wychwood ...... 132lCombe, or Long Combe.. 76 upon-'fhames ......... I07 Hampton Aston ............ 2o Bucknell .... ..... ......... ... 55 Cookley Green, see Swyn- Faringdon-Little ... ...... 92 Bamptou Lew............... 21 Burcott, see Dorchester.. Ss combe ..................... 283 Fawler, see Finstock ...... 94 Banbury ..................... 21 Burdrop,seeSibfordGower 271 Cornbury Park ............ 76 Fencott, see Charlton-onBanbury -South, see Burford ..................... 56 Cornwell ..................... 77 Otmoor ................... 65 Banbury .................. 22 Burton Abbots, see Black Cote, see Bampton Aston 20 Fewcott, see Stoke Lyne. 277 Barford St. John, see Bourton .................. 51 Coton, see Wardington ... 293 Field Assarts, see Asthall 15 Barford St. Michael .•• 38 Byx:brand & Byxgwbbyn, Cottisford .... .... .. .... .. .... 77 Fifield ... ... . ... .. .. .. .• . .. ... 93 Barford St. 1\fichael, or see Bix..................... 46 CourtClose,seeHeadingtn 104 Fifield, see Bensington ... 40 Barford-Great ......... 37 Cadmore End............... 59 Court-Upper & Lower, Filkins .................. ... 93 Barnard Gate, see Caldeco~,see Lower Hey- see Chadlington...... ... 63 Finmere, or Finmore...... 93 Eynsham...... ...... ... ... 92 ford ........................ II3 Cowley-Middle, Temple Finstock ............ ... ...... 94 Bartlemas, see Heading- Calthorpe, see Ban bury. . 24 & Church ............... 77 Folly Bridge, see Oxford.. 142 ton Quarry ............... 105 Cane End, seeCaversham 61 Cowley St. John, see Fordwell, see Asthall.. ... 15 Barton, see Headington .. I04 Cane End, see Kidmore .. 124 Oxford ..................... 158 Forest Farm, see Wood Barton- Middle, Sess- Carfax:, see Oxford ...... 142 Crawley, see Hailey ...... 99 Eaton ..................... 308 wells & Steeple ......... 38 Cassington .................. 6o Crays Pond, see Goring Forest Hill .................. 94 Barton-Westcote ......... 39 Castle Mill, see Oxford ... 142 Heath ..................... 99 Fox:cvtt, see Idbury ...... II9 Baywell Gate, see Charl- Caulcott, see Lower Hey- CrockerEnd,seeNettlebed 136 Freeland ..................... 95 bury . .... .. ....... .. .. . ... .. . 64 ford . .. . .. . .. . . . ... . . . . .. . . . I 13 Crock well, see Bicester... 42 Fringford .... ... . ...... .. . .. . 95 Beacon Field, see Sand- Caversfield .................. 6o Cropredy..................... 78 Fritwell ...................... 95 ford St. Martin ......... 266 Caversham ... ... ... ...... ... 6o Crowell.... ............ ........ 79 Fulbrook ...... ... ......... ... 96

• Vl INDEX TO KELLY'S OXFORDSHffiE DIRECTORY. PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGE Fulwell, see Mixbury ...... I35 Horsepath .•................. II7 Merton ............•.....•.... 131 Parks (The), see Oxford. 156 Fulwell, see Spelsbury ... 273 Horton-cum-Studley ...... n8 Mesopotamia, see Oxford 136 Path Hill, see Whitchurch 299 Fyfield, see Bensington... 40 Id bury ......•..........•..... n8 Middle Assenden, see Bix 46 Peppard, see Rotherfield Gagingwell, see Enstone . go lffi.ey ....... .. . .. . .. ... . .. ... ug Middle Aston, see Steeple Peppard .........•..•...... 264 Gallows Tree Common, Ipsden ....................... 120 .Aston. .. .....•....... ..•. ... 17 Piddington .................. 261 see Kidmore ............ 124 Islip ........................... 121 Middle Barton,see Steeple Pirton, see Pyrton ..•....•• 262 Garsington.... ...... ...... ..• g6 Jericho, see Oxford ...... 151 Barton .... ........... ...... 38 Pishill ........................ 261 Gatehampton, see Goring g8 Kelmscot .. ..... .... ........ 121 Middle Cowley .....•.... .• . 77 Play Hatch, see Dunsden 88 Gibraltar, see Bletching- Kencott ..................... 121 Middleton Stoney .......... 131 PlougleyHill,seeSouldern 272 don .......... ......... ...... 49 Kiddington- Nether & Milcombe ................... 132 Poffi.ey End, see Hailey... g9 Glympton .................. 97 Over ........................ 122 Milton, see .Adderbury ..• u Portways, see Pyrton .... 262 Goddington...... ...... ... ... 97 Kidlington .................. 122 :1\'Iilton-Great ............. 133 Postcombe, see Lewknor. 129 Godstow, see Wolvercote 307 Kidmore ..................... 124 Milton-Little ............. 134 Prescote, see Cropredy... 79 Godstow Meadows, see Kingham .................. 124 Milton-under -Wychwood 132 Preston Crowmarsh, see Oxford ................... 142 King's End, see Bicester. 41 Minster Lovell .............. 134 Bensington................ 41 Golder, see Pyrton ...... 262 King's Mill, see Oxford ... 156 Mixbury ...................... 135 Priest End, see Thame ... 288 Goring........................ 97 King's Stones, see Little Mollington .................. 135 Pudlicot,seeShorthamptn 270 Goring Heath............... 99 Rollright ................... 263 Mongewell ... ... .. . .. . .. ... . 135 Pyrton ....................... 2fi2 Gosford, see Kidlington .. 123 King's Weir, see Oxford. 143 Moorton, see Northmoor. 139 Queen Elizabeth's Island, Grafton, see Langford ..• 126 Kingsey ...................... 314 Moreton, see Thame ...... 288 see Blenheim............. 48 Grandpont, see Oxford ... 158 Kingston Blount, see Murcott, see Charlton- Radcot, see Langford ...... 126 Gravel Hill, see Henley- Aston Rowant.. ..... .. ... 16 on-Otmoor .. .... ..... . .. . 65 Radford, see Enstone . ... go upon-Thames ............ 106 Kingwood,see Rotherfield Muswell Hill,seePidding- Ramsden .................... 262 Great Barford, see Bar- Peppard .................. 264 ton ......................... 261 Road Enstone, see Enford St. Michael......... 37 Kirtlington .................. 125 NeatEnstone,seeEnstone go stone.............. ........ go Great Bourton ............. 52 Kitt's Quarries, see Bur- Neithrop,or Netherthorp, Rock Hill, see Chipping Great Chesterton ......... 67 ford......................... 57 see Ban bury ... .... .. ... 24 Norton ....... ....... ... ... 63 Great Haseley,or Hazeley 102 Knowle Bury, see Chad- Nether Arncott, see .Am- Rofford, see Chalgrove ... 63 Great Milton ................ 133 lington ..................... 63 brosden ................... 14 Roke & Roke Marsh, see Great Rollright ............ 263 Langford .................... 125 Nether Kiddington, see Bensington ............... 40 Great Tew ................... 285 Langley, see Shipton- Kiddington .............. 122 Rollright-Great & Lit.tle 263 Greys, see Rotherfield under-Wychwood ....... 269 Nether Worton ............ 3n Rose Hill, see Cowley..... 78 Greys ..................... 263 Lashbrook, see Shiplake .. 268 Nethercot, see Tackley ... 284 Rose Hill, see Iffi.ey ....... 120 Greys Green, see Rother- Latchford seeGt.Haseley 103 Nethercote, see Banbury. 24 Rotherfield Greys .......... 263 field Greys ............... 264 Launton ..................... rM Nettlebed .................... 136 Rotherfield Peppard ....... 264 Greys Hill, see Henley- Leafield-cum-Wychwood 126 New Grimsbury, see Roundhill, see Enstone... go upon-Thames ............ 109 Ledwell, seeSandford8t. Banbury ................... 24 Rousham ..................... 264 Grim's Dyke, see Monge- Martin ..................... 266 New Headington, see Russell's Water, see well ........................ 136 Leigh-North ............... 127 Headington ............... 103 Swyncombe ............... 283 Grimsbury-Old & New, Leigh-South ............... 128 New Hinksey, see Oxford 159 Rycote, seeGreatHaseley 102 seeBanbury ............ 24 Lew, see Bampton Lew.. 21 NewMarston,seeMarston 130 Sage Pond, see RotherHailey-cum-Crawley ...... gg Lewknor ...................... 128 New Parks, see Oxford ... 156 field Peppard ............. 264 Hampton Gay ............. 100 Lewknor-up-Hill,see Cad- New Thame, see Thame. 288 St. Aldate's, see Oxford .. 156 Hampton Poyle . .. ......... roo more End ......... .... .. 59 New W oodstock, see St. Christopher's QuarHandborough, or Ran- Lidstone, see Enstone..... go W oodstock ............... 308 ries, see Burford.. ...... 57 borough .................... 100 Lime Tree Walk, see Ox- Newington .................. 136 St. Clement's, see Oxford 146 Hanwell ...................... 101 ford ........................ 177 Newington-South ....... 137 St. Ebbe's, see Oxford •.. 151 Hardwick, see Banbury.. 24 Little Baldon, see Toot Newington-North, see St. Thomas's, see Oxford 142 Hard wick, see Duckling- Baldon ............. .... ... 18 Broughton ............... 55 Salford ........................ 265 ton .......... ............... 87 Little Bourton.............. 52 New land, see Banbury •.• 23 Sandford St. Martin ...... 265 Hardwicke .................. 101 Little Chesterton, see Newland, see Cogges...... 76 Sandford-upon-Thames .. 266 Harpsden ................... 102 Great Chesterton ...... 67 Newnham Murren ......... 137 Sarsden ....................... 266 Haseley (or Hazeley)- Little Faringdon ......... 92 Newton Purcell ............ 138 Satwell, see Rotherfield Great ....................... 102 Little Haseley, see Great Newyatt, see Hailey .. .... 99 Greys ...................... 264 Haseley- Little, see Gt. Haseley .................. 102 Newyatt, see North Leigh 127 Scotland End, see Hook Hasele~r .................. 102 Little Milton ............... 134 Noke .......................... 138 Norton ..... ................ 116 Hawk S~one, see Dean, Little Rollright ............ 263 North Aston................. 15 Seswell Barton, see Spelsbury ................. 273 Little 'few .................. 286 North Leigh ................ 127 Steeple Barton........... 38 Hazeley, seeGreatHazeley 102 Littlemore .................. 129 l\'orth Newington, see Shelswell .................... 267 Headington .................. 103 Littleworth,see Bensingtn 40 Brougbton ............... 55 Shenington .................. 267 HeadingtonHill,seeHead- Littleworth,see Wheatley 298 North Stoke ................ 277 Shifford, see Bampton ington ..................... 105 Lobb, see Great Haseley 103 North ·weston, see Thame 288 Aston ...................... 20 Headington Quarry ...... ro5 Long Combe, see Combe. 76 Northbrook, see Kirtling- Shillingford, seeWarboro' 292 Heath, see Hethe ......... IJ3 Long Handborough, see ton ......................... 125 Shilton ........................ 267 Heath End,seeCheckendn 66 Hand borough ............ ro1 Northfield End, see Hen- Shiplake ...................... 268 Hempton, see Deddington 83 Lower Arncott, see .A.m- ley-upon-Thames ....... 107 Shipton-on-Cherwell ..... 268 Henley-upon-Thames ... 105 brosden .................. 1:4 Northmoor .................. 138 Shipton-under-Wychwd. 269 Hensington, see Bladon... 47 Lower Assenden, see Bix 46 Nnffield ...................... 13g Shirburn ..................... 270 & 308 Lower Caversham, see Nuneham Courtenay ...... 139 Shocks Coppice, see Henton, see Chinnor...... 67 Caversham ............... 61 Oakley, see Chinnor ...... 67 Shorthampton .......... 270 Hethe ........................ 113 Lower Court, see Chad- Oddington .................. 140 Shorthampton ............. 270 Heyford-at-Bridge, see lington..................... 63 Old Grimsbury. see Ban- Shotover, see l<'orest Hill 94 Lower Heyford ......... II3 Lower Heyford ............ II3 bury ............. .......... 24 Shotover Hill Place, see Heyford-Lower & Upper Lewer Tadmarton, see Old Thame, see Thame ... 288 Headington Quarry ... ros II3 & 114 Tadmarton ............... 284 Old Woodstock, see Wood- Showell, see Swerford ..• 282 Heyford ·warren, see Lower Woolvercot, see stock ....................... 308 Shutford-East & West .. 270 Upper Heyford .......... 114 Wolvercote ............... 307 Oseney Town, see Oxford rsr Sibford Ferris ............... 271 Heythrop ..................... 114 Lyneham, see Milton- Osney Hill, see North Sibford Gower ............. 271 High Coggs, see Cogges.. 76 under-Wychwood ...... 133 Le1gh ...................... I27 Signet, see Burford ...... 56 Highmoor ... ... ............ II4 Madmarston, see Swal· Over Arncott, see Am- Sinodun Hill, see DorRinksey-~ew,seeOxford 159 cliffe ....................... 281 brosden ............... ._... 14 chester..................... 85 Holcombe,see Newington 137 MaidenBower,seeSteeple Over Kiddington, see Somerton .................. 272 Holton ...... ...... ............ us Barton .... .. .............. 38 Kiddington . .......... ... 122 Sonning Common, see Holwell ..................... ns Maple Durham ............ 130 Over 2\"orton, see Chip- Dunsden .................. 88 Holy Well, see Tadmarton 284 Market End, see Bicester 41 ping N orton ... ... .... ... 6g Sonning Eye,see Dunsden 88 HolywellGreen,seeOxford 147 :Harsh (or March) Baldon 17 Over Worton ................ 3II Souldern ..................... 272 Hook Norton ................ 115 Marston ....................... 130 Overy, see Dorchester ... 85 South Banbury, see BanHorley ........................ 117 Marston-New, see Mar- Oxford ....................... 140 bury........................ 22 Hornton ..................... 117 ston ......................... 130 Park Corner, see Swyn- South Leigh ............... 128 Horse-on-the-Hill, see Medlers' Bank, see Ben- corn be ..................... 283 South N ewington ... ...... 137 North Leigh ............ 127 sington .................... 40 Park Town, see Oxford ... 1871South Stoke .................. 278

•• INDEX TO KELLY'S OXFORDSHIRE DIRECTORY. Vll PAGE PAGB PAGE PAGB South Weston ...........•... 297 Tadmarton Heath, see Water End, see Stoken- Wigginton ..•••••••••••••..• 300 Southrop,seeHookN orton n6 Tadmarton ............... 284 church ................••... 279 Wilcote, or Wilcott ..•..• 300 Spelsbury .....•.....•.....• 273 Taston, see Spelsbury •.. 274 Water Walks, see Oxford I36 Williamscote, see WardSpriggs Alley,seeChinnor 67 Taynton ..•.................. 285 Waterperry .••........•...... 293 ington .....•..•..•..•..•... 293 Stadhampton ............... 274 Temple Cowley ............ 77 Waterstock .................. 294 Windmill Hill,see NettleStandhill, see Pyrton... .. . 262 Tetsworth . .. . .. . .. . . . ...... 28 5 Watlington . .. . .. . . . . .• .•. ... 294 bed . . . . .. ... ..• .... .. ... ... Ig6 Standlake ....•.........•... 274 Tew-Great ..•............ 285 WattlebankAvesditch,see Witheridge Hill, see HighStanton Harcourt ......... 275 Tew-Little .................• 286 Fritwell ....•......•.....• 96 moor .......•......•.....•... II5 Stanton St. John .•....... 276 Thame ........................ 286 Weald, see Bampton...... I9 Witney .....•..•..•........•... 30I Steeple Aston ............... 16 Thame Park, see Thame. 287 Wellground, see Lewknor 129 Wolvercote .....•..•.....•... 306 Steeple Barton .•..•....... 38 Thomley, see Waterperry 294 Wendlebury ... .....•...... 297 Wood Ea ton ..•........•..• 307 Stoke North ............... 277 Thornbury, see Binsey ... 46 West Adderbury, see Ad- Wood Green, see Hailey. 99 Stoke South ............... 278 Thrup, see Kidlington ... I23 derbury .................. II Wood Green, see Witney 301 Stoke Lyne ....•............. 277 Tiddington, see Albury ,. 12 West End, see Hailey ... 99 Woodcote,seeSouthStoke 278 Stoke Row ....•........•.... 277 Toot Baldon .. ... ... ... ... ... x8 West End, see Stanton W oodley'sCopse,seeHailey 99 Stoke Talmage ..........•. 279 Tumbling Bay, see Ox- Harcourt ..•.....•.......•. 276 Woodstock ..•....•...•.....• 308 Stokenchurcli .......•....... 279 ford ....................•... I56 West End, see Witney ... 304 Woodstock-Old & New, Stonelands, see Asthall... IS Tusmore .. . ... ... ... ... ... ... 291 West Shutford .... ...•. ... 270 see Woodstock ........• 308 Stonesfield .................• 280 Tythrop ..................... 292 Westcote Barton............ 39 Woolaston, see Mixbury. I35 Stowood, see Beckley ... 39 Upper Arncott, see Am- WesthallHill,seeFulbrook 96 Woolvercot, see WolverStratton Audley ............ 280 brosden .................. 14 Weston - North, see cote ........•.....•........• 3o6 Streatley, see Goring ... 98 Upper Assenden,seePyrtn 262 Thame .................. 288 Woolvercot--Lower, see Studley, see Horton ...... u8 Upper Court, see Chad- Weston-South .....•...... 297 Wolvercote ..•.....•..•... 307 Stutridge, see Lewknor .. 129 lington..................... 63 Weston-on-the-Green ... 297 Wootton .....•...........•..• 3n Summertown, see Oxford 15 8 Upper Heyford . .. . .. . . . . .. II4 West well..................... 298 W or sham, see Asthall ..• I 5 Sutton, see Stanton Har- Upper Tad.marton, see Wheatfield .....•............ 298 W orton, see Cassington.. 6o court ................•.....•. 276 Tadmarton ............... 284 Wheatley ..•.................. 298 Worton-Nether & Over. 3n Swalcliffe ....•.....•....... 281 Upton, see Burford .....• 57 Whitchurch ...........•...... 299 Wretchwick, see Bicester 43 Swerford .....•.•........•.... 282 Wadham Gardens, see Whispering Knights, see ·wroxton ..................... 312 Swinbrook ..........•..•..•. 282 Oxford .................•..• 186 Little Rollright ......... 263 Wychwood, see Leafield .. 126 Swyncombe .•..•..•..•..•..•• 283 Walcot, see Charlbury ... 64 White Oak Green, see Wychwood Park,seeCornSydenham . • . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . 28 3 War borough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • 292 Hailey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 bury Park . . . • . . . . • . . . . . . 76 Tackley ..................... 284 Wardington .....•..•.....• 292 Whitehead's Oak, see Wykham, see Banbury ... 24 Tadmarton .................. 284 Warpsgrove .................• 293 N uneham Courtenay. .• 139 Yarn ton ..................... 313 Tadmarton - Lower & Warren Hill, see Pyrton. 262 Whitehill, see Tackley .. . 284 Y elford . . . . . . . . . .. • .. . . . . . . • 314 Upper ..................... 284 WaterEaton,seeKidlingtn 123 ·Widford ..•.................. 300

LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL SEATS IN OXFORDSHIRE, With Reference to the Places under which they will be found in this Volume. ___ ..,.. ___ _ PAGE Adder bury house, James Walker Larnach esq. See East Adder bury . .• . . . . . . . .. . .. . .. . ... . . . . . . . . ... . .. . ... . . .. . . ... ... •.• •.. 11 Adwell house, Mrs. Henry Birch-Reynardson, see Ad well......... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . • . . 12 Aston house, Sir William Chichele Plowden K.C.S.I., J.P. see Aston Rowant............... ... ... ...............••... 16 :Badgemore, Richard Ovey esq. seE\ Henley-on-Thames .• 107 :Baldon house, Leigh Hoskyns esq. J.P. see Marsh Baldon 18 llalmore, Lieut.-Gen. Robert Parker Radcliffe R..A., J .. P. see Caversham. .. . ..• . .. . . . . .. . ... . ... . . . . .. ••. .•. •.. .....• 61 Bampton Manor house, Ivan Musgrave Watson esq. see Eampton... .. . . .. ... ... . . . .. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . .... .. •. . .• ... ... ..• ••. xg Barton Abbey, Alexander William Hall esq. D.L., J. P. PAGE Crowsley park, Col. John Baskerville J.P., D.L. see Shiplake ..•................................... ,.. . .. . . . . .. . . .. . .. . . .. 268 Cuddesdon palace, Right Rev. Lord Bishop of Oxford (William Stubbs D. D., F.S.A. ), see Cuddesdon ....... So Culham house, Mrs. Phillips, see Culham................... 81 Denton house, Sir Edward Loughlin O'Malley M . .A., J. P. see Den ton, Cuddesdon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. . .. . .. . . . . . . • 8o Ditchley house, Viscount Dillon D.L., M. A. see Ditchley 273 Duns Tew Manor house, Frederick Charles Fanning esq. see Duns Tew ... ... ... ...... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... . ..• 88 Easington Manor house, Thomas Greenwood esq. see Easington ............................. ;o,.................................. R8 Elsfield Manor house, Herbert Parsons esq. J.P. see see Steeple Barton. .. .. . ... .. .••.••.. .• .. .. . . . .. ... .. ... . .• . .. ••• •.. 38 Elsfield....... •.....• ..•..• ..•..• ..•..•.••..•.•• .. . . . . .. ... .•••. ..••• Sg Eynsham hall, James Mason esq. J.P. see Eynsham..... 92 39 Friar Park,FrankCrisp esq.J.P.seeHenley-upon-Thames 107 Fringford lodge, Rev. Edward Withington M.A., J.P. Barton Manor house, Rev. Jenner Marshall M.A. see W es"tcote Barton ................................................... . Bicester priory, Captain .Abercromby A. C. Nelson, see Bicester ............................................................. . 42 see Fringford . . . . . • .. . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . ..• 95 Bignell house, Chas.Twysden Hoare esq. J.P. see Bicester Blenheim palace, Duke of Marlborough D.L., JP. see Blenheim ............................................................. . Bletchington park, Viscount Valentia M.P., J.P. see 42 Fritwell Manor House, Thomas Garner esq. see Fritwell 96 Glympton park, Col.Hy.Barnett D.L.,J.P.seeGlympton 97 47 Grange (The), James Hodges esq. see Bruern ...........• 132 Greys Court, Sir Francis George Stapleton bart. J.P. Bletchington . . .. . . . .. . .. . . . . .. . .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. .. . .. . . . . .•. . ... ... 49 Blounts Court, Frederick Garland Mylrea esq. see Rotherfield Peppard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . • . . 264 Bloxham grove, Rev. George Warriner M. A. see Bloxham so Bodicote grange, Sir Bernhard Samuelson bart. M.P., F.R.S., J.P. see Bodicote...................................... 51 Bodicote house, John Frederick Starkey esq. J.P. see Bodicote....... ... .. ... .... .. . .•. ... ... ... ... ... . .... ..... .... ....•.• 51 Bolney court, Henry Hodges esq. J.P. see Harpsden .... 102 Bozedown, James Russel King esq. see Whitchurch ...... 299 Bradwell grove, William Henry Fox esq. B..A., D.L., J.P. seeBradwell ................................................ 52 Brashfield house, Mrs. Burchardt, see Caversfield .••..•• 6o Braziers house, .Alfred Charles Arding esq. J.P. see Checkendon . . . . .. . .. .. . . . .. . •. . .. . .. .. . . . .. . •. . .. . . •. . .. .. . . •.. ..• . .. 66 Britwell house, Mrs. Smith, see Britwell Prior............. 53 Broughton castle, Hamilton Fane Gladwin esq. J.P. see Brooghton . . . . . . . . ••• • . .• • ••. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • .. • 54 Broughton hall, Hon. Fitzroy William Whitbread Stanhope, see Broughton Pogis. .. . .. ... ... . . .. ..... .. .•..•••. .. . .. 55 Bucknell manor, Hugh Graham esq. see Bucknell........ 55 Cane End house, Henry Brigham Douglas Vanderstegen esq. J.P. seeKidmore ............................................. 124 Caversfield house, Charles Jacob Bullock Marsham esq. J.P. see Caversfield................... ...... ....•................ 6o Caversham Park mansion, William ThompsonCrawshay esq. see Caversham........................ ....•.... ... .... .••.• 61 Chastleton house, Miss Whitmore J ones, see Chastleton 66 Checkendon court, Robert Fraser Duff esq. J.P. see Checkendon.. .. . .•. ... . . . •.. . .. .• . ... ... . .. . . . . . . . .•. . • •. •.• ... ..• 66 Chesterton, Henry Tubb esq. see Great Chesterton...... 67 Chiselhampton house, Mrs. Parke, see Chiselhampton... 73 Cokethorpe park, John Cotterill-Dormer, see Ducklington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . •• . . . . . . . . . .. . . •.. . . . • . .. • . . . . . 87 Col d' Arbres, .Alfred De Mornay esq. Crowmarsh Gifford 8o Combe park, John Foster esq. D.L., J.P. see Whitchurch 299 Combe Rectory house, Mrs. Brooke, see Corn be •.•. •••. ••• 76 Coppice (The), Sir Waiter George Frank Phillimore bart. D. C.L., J P. see Shiplake .............................. 268 Cornbury park, Llewelyn Malcolm Wynne esq. D.L., J. p. . . . . . • . . .• . . . . . . . . . . . . . •.. . . .. . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Cornwell manor, .Alexander Nelson Hall esq. J.P. see Corn well .......... ..•. ....•. .•...• ••.. •... ..•..•... ..•. .••.•. ........ 77 Cotefield, Rev. Henry Cunliffe M. A. see East Adder bury II Cotmore house, William Wemyss Methven Dewar esq. D.L., J.P. see Fringford.............................. .......... 95 Cottisford house, Edwardes Richard Kendall Rousby esq. see Cottisford.. ...• .•...•.. •..•••...•. .•.. •.•...•..••.••• ••• 77 Court Place, Major Frederick J. Nash Ind, see Iffiey .••• 120 see Rotherfield Greys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .• 264 Hardwick house, Charles Day Rose esq. see Whitchurch 299 Harlesford, Robert William Peel esq. see Tetsworth ...... 284 Harpsden court, Robert Raikes esq. see Harpsden ...... 102 Haseley court, James Patrick Muirhead esq. D.L. see Little Haseley .. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. . . . . .. . . . .. . . .. . .. . .. . .. • 703 Headington Hill hall,George Herbert Morrell esq. M . .A., B.C.L., D .L., J.P. see Headington ........•.............•• 104 Headington ho. Mrs. W ootten-W ootten, see Headington 104 Heathfield house, Major-General the Hon. George Talbot Devereux R. A., J. P. see Bletchington . . . . . . .. . .. . .. • 49 Hensington ho.FrederickBurnHarvey esq.see Woodstock 308 Heythrop park, .Albert Brassey esq. B.A., D.L., J .P. & Hon. Mrs. see Heythrop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • .. • I 14 Hermitage (The), William Kinch esq. see Deddington... 82 Highmoor hall, Geo. Talfourd Inman esq.see Highmoor II5 Hill house, Bertram Savile Ogle esq. B.A., J.P. see Steeple Asron .. . . . . • .. . . . . . . . .. . .• . . . . .• . .. . .. . .. • . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 17 Holmwood,Miss Mary Elizabeth .Akroyd, Shiplake ...... 268 Holton cottage, Frank Henry Barnett esq. see Holton... II5 Holton park, Henry Stafford Tyndale Biscoe esq. J.P. see Holton ..•..•.••.....•....•..•..••..•........•.....•...........• 115 Horsepath Manor house, .Arthur Octavius Prickard M.A. see Horsepath... .. ... . .... .. ... . .. . .. . .. ... . .. ... . ...... ... 118 Howbery park, Henry Bertie Watkin-Williams-Wynn D.L., J.P. see Crowmarsh Gifford .....•........•...... ..• 8o Ipsden house, Major Charles John Boyle, see Ipsden, ... 120 Kelmscott Manor house, Wm. Morris esq. see Kelmscott 121 Kencott Manor house, Miss Large, see Kencott .. ......• 122 Kiddington hall, Charles Thurburn esq. see Kiddington 122 Kidmore grange, Martin John Sutton esq. see Kidmore 124 Kingston grove, Col. John Fane Ballard, see Kingston Blount .. . . .. . . . . .. . . . . .. . .•. . . . .•..•. .••.••.••... .... .. .. . . .. . . .. .•. .•. 16 Kingston house, Henry Clerke Brown esq. D.L., J.P. see Kingston Blount . ... .. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. . . .. . . . ... .•. ... .•• 16 Kirtlington park, Henry Gaskell Close esq. M.A., J.P. see Kirtlington...... . . . . . . . . . . . • . . • • . . . . . . . • . . . . . • . . .. . . • . . • . . • . • •. 12 5 Langford ho. ,Lord de Mauley J.P. see Little Faringdon 93 Langston house, Edward Conder esq. see Chadlington.. 63 Lawn Upton, Sir Wm. Jas. Herschel bart.see Littlemoor ng Lee Place,Capt.JohnHampden WallerJ.P.see Charlbnry 64 Little Rollright house, Jas. Bliss esq. see Little Rollright 263 Little Tew Grange, Rev. Charles Foster Garratt M . .A. see Little Tew .. . .. . . . . . •. .. . .. . .. . .•. ... . •. ... . . . ... ... .•. .. . ... 286 Mallard's Court, Mrs. Flower, see Stokenchurch, ....•.... 279 Mapledurham, Hon . .Algernon Henry Mms, see Maple l)uurllalll .......................................................... I3<l Middle .Aston,Charles Waiter Cottrell-Dormer esq. J.P., D. L. see Middle Aston ....................................... .

• • LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL SEATS IN OXFORDSHIRE. IX PA.GB Middleton park, Rt. Hon. Earl of Jersey P.C., G.C.M.G. (lord Iieut. of Oxfordshire), sec Middleton Stoney ...... 131 Milton priory, Robert R. Harvey esq. see Great Milton. 133 Mongewell house, Alexander Casper Fraser esq. D.L., J.P. see Mongewell .............................................. 136 North Aston hall, Williarn Melliar Foster-Melliar esq. J .P. see North Aston .......................................... 15 Nunebam park,AubreyHarcourtesq. J.P. see Nuneham Cour'tenay .......................................................... I39 OverNQrton ho. William G.Dawkins esq.seeOver Norton 69 Phyllis Court,HughMair esq.D.L.seeHenley-on-Thames HY/ Pudlicot house, Hon. Miss Dill on, see Shorthampton ... 270 Pyrton Manor house, Edward Samuel Hamersley esq. D.L., J.P. see Pyrton .•..•..•••••..•.•••••.••..•..•••••••..•••• 262 Ramsden house, Rev. Robert Lowbridge Baker M.A., J.P. see Ramsden ................................................ 263 Red house, Lieut.-CoL the Hon. Caryl Craven Molyneux J. P. see Bodico'te ..•. .... ...•..•. .......... ...• .... ........... ..• 51 Rotherfield Court, Col. William Thomas Makins D.L., J.P. see Henley-upon-Thames ............................ 107 Rousham park, Lieut.-Col. Alfred Western Hatchell Hornsby-Drake, see Rousham .............................. 265 St. Mary's house, Mrs. Taunton, see Freeland ............ 95 Sandford park, Mrs. Guest, sec Sandford St. Martin ... 266 Sandford St. Martin Manor house, Rev. Edward Marshall M. A., F.S.A. see Sandford St. Martin ............... 266 Sarsden house, Lord Moreton J.P. see Sarsden .......... 267 Shelswell park, Edward Slater-Harrison esq. J.P. sec Shelswell . . .•. . .. . .. . . . . . . . . . • . . .. . . .. ... ... .... .. .. . ... . ... .. ..... . !2.67 Shiplake house, The Misses Phillimore, see Shiplake...... 268 Shipton court, Mrs. Reid, see Shipton-under-Wychwood 269 Shipton lodge, Mrs. Hewlett,seeShipton-nnder-Wychwd 269 Shirburn castle, Earl of Macclesfield J.P. see Shirbum. 270 Shirburn lodge, Mrs. Ruck-Keene, see Shirburn .......... 270 Shotover House, Lieut.-Col. James Miller D.L., J.P. see Shotover ......... ..... ... .... .. ....... .. . .. . ........ .... .. .... 95 Souldern Manor house,Lieut.-Col. Albert Edward England J. P. see Souldern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272 Soundess, William Roderick Dalziel Mackenzie esq. J.P. seeN ettlel>ed ...................................................... 136 Stadhampton manor, Thomas Franklin esq. see Stadham p't<>n • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • . • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • . • . • • • • • . • • • . • • • • • . • • • • • 27 4 Steeple Aston grange, Vice-Admiral Richard Bradshaw C.B., J.P. see Steeple Aston ···················"············· 17 Stonor park, Lord Camoys D.L., J.P. see Upper Assenden, Pyrton... ... ... ... ... ... ...... ... ... ... ...... .•. ...... 262 PA.GB Stratton Audley hall, P. Colville Smith esq. see Stratton Audley ............................................................. 281 Stratton Audley park, Col. George Gosling, see Stratton Audley . . . . . . . . . ... . .. . .. . .. ... . .. . . .. . . . . ... ... ... .. . ... . .. . .. 281 Studley Priory,Mrs. Henderson,see Horton-cum-Studley u8 Swalcli:ffe park, Lieut.-Col. Henry Crawley Norris J.P. see Swalclifie .. . . . ....... ... .. . . .. ... . . . . . . . .. . .. . .. . . . . .. . .. . .. a8 1 Swanston house, Alexander Clark Forbes esq. J.P. see Whitchnrch ...... .. . •.. .. . ... .. . ... .. .... ... . .. . .. ... ... .... . .. .... 299 Swerford park, Robert Snow Bolton Da'ris esq. J.P. see Swerfo-rd ............................. ... ...... ..................•.. 282 Swift's house, Capt. Sir Algernon Francis Peyton hart. J.P. see Stoke Lyne ............................................. 277 Swyncombe house, Emil Reiss esq. see Swyncombe ...... 283 Tackley Park, Mrs. Evetts, sec Tackley ... . .. • .. ... .... .. • .. 284 Tadmarton Manor ho. Geo. Wade esq. see Tadmarton ... 284 Temple (The), Fredk. George Banbury esq. see Goring 98 Tew park, Matthew Ernest Boulton esq. see Great Tew. 286 Thame park, Wemnau Aubrey Wykeham-Musgrave esq. D.L., J.P. see Thame ..................................... 287 Tiddington house, Mrs. Bennett, see Albury ...... .... ..... 12 Tusmore ho. Earl of Effingham D.L., J.P. see Tusmore 291 Tythrop house, Philip James Digby Wykeham esq. D.L .• J.P. see Tyilirop ......................................• 292 Waterperry house, Joseph John Henley esq. O.B., D.L., J.P. see Waterperry .................................... 294 Waterstock house, William Henry Ashhurst esq. D.L., J.P., M.F.H. see Waterstock ................................. 294 Watlington park, John Frederic Symons-Jeune esq. J.P. see W a tlingWn........ . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 29 5 Weston-on-the-Green Manol' house, Mrs. Bertie, see W eston-on-the-Green ... .. . •.. ... . ... . . . ... ... . . . ..... ..... .•.. 297 Wilcote, George Henry Dawkins esq. North Leigh •••••• 127 Wilcote Manor house, Miss Picketing, see Wilcote........ 301 Williamsco1ie house, Edgar Thornton esq. see Cropredy 79 Wood Eaton b.ouse, John Weylaud esq. D.L., J.P. & Lady Catherine Weyland, see Wood Eaton ............ 3o8 Woodleys, Hon. Edwin Charles William Ponsonby J.P., D.L. see Wootton ......•...................................•.• , .. 311 Woodperry, John Thomson esq. M.A., J.P. see Stanton St. John ............................................................. 276 Woodstock ho. Audley Charles Miles esq. see Woodstock 308 Wroxton abbey, Lord North J.P. see Wroxton ............. 312 Wyfold court, RobertTrotter Hermon-Hodge esq. M.A., J. P. see Chookend on .• . ... ... . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . ... . . . . . .. ... ..• 66 Wykham park, Wm. Mewburn esq.J.P.,D.L.seeBanbury 24

INDEX TO • THE NUJIIBERS REFERRED TO ARE THE ADVERTISEMENT PAGES AT THE END OF THE BOOK. PAGE PAGE BANKING. Cabinet maker:- OXON & BERKS ... ... ... ... . . . ... ••• ... . . . . . . ... .. . I H. W. MALINS... ... . .. . . ... . ....... .. ... . .. ... ... ... 25 ASSURANCE. Canvas manufacturer:- COUNTY FIRE........................................ 1 T. BRIGGS.... .. . . . . ..• ...... ... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ... . .. 36 EAGLE......... ....... .....•.......... ...................... 2 Carriage builders:- ENGINE, BOILER & EMPLOYERS' F. DALES & CO. .. . ... ..• .. . .. . ... ... . ... .. .. .... ... 24 LIABILITY .. .. .. .. .. . ....... ..• . .. ......... .... .. 2 Chair manufacturers :- GENERAL REVERSIONARY & INVEST- B. NORTH & SONS................................. 31 MENT CO. ... ... ... .•.. .. ...... ...••.... ... ... . . .... 3 W. SKULL & SON ..•... ... ... ... ... ...... ... .... ... 22 IMPERIAL . I ............. I I .. I.... . .................. . LONDON ASSURANCE .......................... . NORTHERN .......................................... . NORWICH UNION FIRE ....................... . PHCENIX FIRE ........ "'···· ....................... . PRO V ID ENT LIFE ................................ . • ROYAL EXCHANGE ............................. . SCOTTISH EQUITABLE ...................... .. SUN FIRE ............................................. . UNION .................................................... . WESTMINSTER FIRE ......................... .. WESTMINSTER & GENERAL LIFE ........ . YORKSHIRE .......................................... . MISCELLANEOUS. Agricultural engineers :- 4 Chimney top manufacturers :- 4 COALBROOKDALE CO. LIMITED............ 38 3 Coal merchants:- 5 S. HOLLAND & SON ... ....... ..... ...... ...... ... 30 5 6 6 8 7 8 9 Cooking & heating apparatus manufacturers :- COALBROOKDALE CO. LIMITED............ 38 Decorators :- T. AXTELL... ... ... ... ..• ... ..• .... .•. ... ... ... ... ... ..• 27 T. W. CANTWELL .....•........................... 33 G. DARLINGTON ... . . . . . . ... ... ... . . .. ... ..... ... .. . 30 J. R. MAIJINS ......................................• 25 9 Draper:- 10 '1'. C. TID~IARSH... ... .. . ... .•. ... ... ... ... •..... ... 35 Ebonite manufacturers:- BATTING- & SONS .. . . •• .•• .••• .. • .. ••. ... ..• ..• .. • 28 INDIA RUBBER, GUTTA PERCHA & TELEGRAPH WORKS CO. LIMIT.ED ... 12 Art chair manufacturers :- Electrical engineers :- W. SKULL & SON ................................. 22 INDIA. RUBBER, GUTTA PEROHA & Auctioneers:- TELEGRAPH WORKS CO. LIMITED ... 12 E. J. BROOKS ........................................ . 17 Engineers:- C. H, HUNT ..•.......••..•...•••... ·········~········ 30 BAl'TING & SONS ... ........................... ... 28 COALBROOKDALE CO. LIMITED............ 38 Bag manufacturer-Coffee, sugar &c. :- T. BRIGGS .............................................• :Barbed wire manufacturer :- 36 Engineers' stores:- W. H. WILLCOX & CO. ............ ... . ..... ... ... 13 J. A. REEVE ..................•..................•• 26 Enquiry offices:- STUBBS' LIMITED .... . .... .. ..... .. . .. .... .. ... ... II Boat builders & proprietors :- A. H. EAST ... ... . .. ... .•. ... . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . 24 Fire brick manufacturers:- COALBROOKDALE CO. LIMITED............ 38 Fishmonger :- T. TIMS ............................................... . J. WEsrr ................................................ . :Breeches makers:- 32 35 W. A. KEMP .......................................... 25 BARTLETT & CARTER ...................... .. "Brick & tile manufacturers:- 23 Flower seed merchants :- SUTTON & SONS .................................... . 16 COALBROOKDALE CO. LIMITED ........ . 3s Furniture removers:- .Br.ick, tile & pipe machinery manufacturers:- S. HOLLAND & SON.............................. 30 T AXTELL 27 J. A. REEVE ... . .. ... ..•..•.. ... . .... .• .••. •••.•••• 26 . . ............................................ . T. W. CANT WELL................................. 33 Garden seat manufacturers :- CLARIDGE & :BLOXHAM ...... ... ... ... ...... 23 COALBROOKDALE CO. LIMITED ... ...... ..• 38 G. DARLINGTON ..... ................ ......... ... 30 Gasfitter :- G. FOUNTAIN.......................................... 25 T. W. CANTWELL ................................. 33

• INDEX TO COMMERCIAL PROSPECTUSES. Xl PAGE! Gate manufacturer:- J. A. REEVE.......................................... 26 Grocer:- G. CROSS................................................ 33 Gutta percha manufacturers:- INDIA RUBBER, GUTTA PERCHA & TELEGRAPH WORKS CO. LIMITED... 12 Habit makers:- BARTLETT & CARTER ••. .....••.. ••...• .••... 23 Horse blister manufacturer :- W. H. JAMES.......................................... 19 Hotels:- T. H. BLAKE.............................. ... ... ... ... 23 G. CLARE .. . .•.... ...... ... ... ... ..• ... ... .• . ... ... ... 29 G. COCKERILL ... ... ... ... ..• ... ... ... .•. ... ... ..... 29 E. CROXFORD .•• .•• .•• .•• •.• •.• ..• ... ..•....•• .. . .•• 34 J. A. DRAYTON .....•......•.•...... .....•..•...... 17 J. GILES................................................ 34 J. S. HOLLAND .. •. .. .... . .. ... .•• ... ... . .. . .• ... .. . 34 A. MUCKLEY ... ..•... .•••.. •••... .•• .•• ...... ... ... 34 M. H. NICHOLLS .....•.•..•..••......... ·•• ... ... 33 MRS. T. NUNN EY .....•..••••.•..••..•..•.....•.•• RANDOLPH HOTEL CO. LIMITED .••.•...• House, land & estate agent :- C. H. HUNT ..•...............•.......•..•.••....•...• Hydraulic ram manufacturer:- 33 2C l'.A.GW Monumental mason :- G. FOUNTAIN ... ... ... ... .....•. ... ... ..• ..• ... ...••• 25 Music merchants :- S. ACOTT & CO. . .. . .• ... ... .•. . . . .•. . . . ••. ..• ... .•• 27 Newspapers:- ABING DON HERALD.............................. 27 EANBURY GUARDIAN........................... 27 BUCKINGHAM ADVERTISER & NORTH BUCKS FREE PRESS .•• ... .•. ... ... ... .••..• 29 :BUCKINGHAM EXPRESS ..................... 29 BUCKS HERALD.................................... 28 EUCKS STANDARD ...... ............ .....• ..• ... 28 JACKSON'S OXFORD JOURNAL •.. •••..••.• 30 NEWPORT PAGNELL GAZETTE .....• •••... 31 OXFORD TIMES ............ ..,...... ... ..... ... ... ... 31 READING MERCURY •••... .•.... •••... ... ... ... 21 READING OBSERVER............................ 21 SOUTH BUCKS FREE PRESS . . ...... ... ... .•• 32 SOUTH BUCKS STANDARD ... ..•. .••. ... ... .•• 32 Oil cloth manufacturer:- T. BRIGGS .. . .. . ... ... . . .. . ..•... .. .. . ... .. . ..... .. .... 36 Oil merchants & refiners :- GILL & CO............................................. 18 J. ]3~~ ··············•·····•·····•··········••······ -- DYSON. ... ... ..• .. . ..........•. ... .•... .... .•• ... ..• 34 37 Pianoforte merchants:- Ice merchant:- W. A. KEMP .......................................... . S. ACOTT & CO....................... .... .. ... . .. ... 27 25 Picture frame maker:- Incubator manufacturers :- WESTMERIA CO. . ................................ . India rubber manufacturers:- INDIA RUBBER, GUTTA PERCHA & TELEGRAPH WORKS CO. LIMITED ..• lronfounders :- 32 12 COALBROOKDALE CO. LIMITED . . . ... . .. 38 Iron manufacturers:- STRING ER BROTHERS ... ••. •.. ... ... . . . ..• . . . ... I 5 Iron buildings manufacturer:- H. W. MALINS. .•• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . •• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 5 Pipe-making machine manufacturer:- J. CLEWS .... ..... ...•..••••.•........•... .... .......... 24 Plumbers:- T. W. CANTWELL .......•................... ... ..• 33 J. R. MALINS ...•.•...•.......•••••..••••..•.••.••..• 25 Printers & publishers:- KELLY & CO. LIM. Printers & publishers of the Post Office London & County Directories &c ..••.......•••••...•..... 13, 35, 39 & 40 W. HARBROW ............... ... ............... ...... IO Punt proprietor:- Iron gate & railing manufacturers :- J. WEST •· · ••• •••· · · · ·· · · • .. · ·•· · · · ...... ••• · .. ··· ·•· · · · 35 COALBROOKDALF. CO. LIMITED............ 38 Quarry owners:- Iron roofing manufacturer:- w. HARBROW 411 •••• ••• •• ••• .... ••• ••• ••••• •••••••••• IO W. A. DARBISHIRE ......•••.........•........... ··• 35 PEN-YR-ORSEDD SLATE QUARRY eo. LIMITED...... .•. ..• . . . . . . .•. . . . . . . . . . ... . . . ... ..• . .• 35 2 g Radiator manufacturers:- Ironmongers :- EATTING & SONS .•••.•.................•.......•• GILL & eo. Job master:- W. KEENE • • • . . . .. . •• . •• • • ••• ••• .•• . • .. • • .•• •• •. • . • •• I 8 . .. . . . . .• .•• . . . . . . . .. ... . . . . . . ..• . . • .•. .•• 33 Joinery manufacturer:- W. HARBROW .•. •.. . .. ... . . . .. . . .. ..• ..• ... ... .•. .•• 10 Launch builder:- A. H. EAST .. . .•. . . . . .. . . . ... ... . . . . .. ..• .. . ... ... . . • 42 Livery stable proprietor:- J. MEADS ... .••. .. ..• ......................... .••.••.•. 26 Magnesia manufacturers :- DINNEFORD & CO.................................. 10 Manufacturers' agent:- J. llSEMORE .••.•...•.•.. .......•..•..•..•..... .... 20 Mercantile offices :- STUBBS' LIMITED •.• .•• ..• ... .•• ..• ••• .•• .. • .•. .•• 1 I Mineral water manufacturer :- - LYLE........................... ... .................. 34 eOALBROOKDALE CO. LIMITED............ 38 Sack & sacking manufacturer:- T. BRIGGS . . . . . . . . . ... . . . .. . . . . .•• . . . . . . .•. ..• . . . . . . ..• 36 Sanitary engineer :- T. AXTELL... ... ..•... ...... .•. ... ... ... •........... .•• 27 Schools & colleges :- REV. J. F. C. DENNING ... ............... ...•.• 33 MISS H. THOMPSON .............................. 35 G. TOTTLE ... .. .. . ... . .. . .. . ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 26 M.RS. T. WHITE..... . .. .. . ... ... . .. . .. ... ... ... •.. ..• 22 Seed growers & merchants:- SUTTON & SONS ... ... ... .•. .•. .... .. ... ... ... .•• ..• 16 Slate merchants :- W. A. DARBISHIRE .... ~. .•. . .. ••• ... •. . • .. . . • ... 35 R. J. JOHNSON & CO............................. 19 PEN-YR-ORSEDD SLATE QUARRY CO. LIMITED... ... .•.... ... ... ... ... ... •.. ... •.. .•• ••. .•• 35 ROBERTS, AD LARD & CO....................... 13

•• Xll INDEX TO COMMERCIAL PROSPECTUSES. PAGE Spinner & manufacturer:- T. BRIGGS .. . .... .. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .. . ... ... 36 Steam engine manufacturers:- COALBROOKD.ALE CO. LIMITED............ 38 Steam packing manufacturer:- T. BRIGGS ... ... ... ... ... . .. ... ... ... ... ... ... .. . ... ... 36 Steam pump manufacturers:- COALBROOKDALE CO. LIMITED............ 38 Steel manufacturers :- STRINGER BROTHERS........................... 15 PAGJI Timber merchants:- T. BATES & SONS ... ... ... ... ... ...... ... ... ...... 28 R. J. JOHNSON & 00.............................. 19 G. PEARCE . ... ... ... .. . ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 31 Torpedo apparatus manufacturers:- INDIA RUBBER, GUTTA PERCHA & TELEGRAPH WORKS CO. LIMITED.... 12 Undertakers:- CLARIDGE & BLOXHAM... ... ......... ... ... ..• 23 G. FOUNTAIN.········~······························ T. C. TIDMARSH ........ -. ............................ . 25 35 Stove & range manufacturers:- COALBROOKDALE CO. LIMITED ........... . Upholsterers:- 38 H. W. MALINS ....................................... 25 Surveyors :- E. J. BROOKS......................................... 17 W. G. A. RAMBLING ............................. . C. H. RUNT .......................................... . Tailors:- 18 30 W. SKULL & SON ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 22 Vegetable seed merchants :- SUTTON & SONS..................................... 16 Verandah manufacturers:- COALBROOKDALE CO. LIMITED............ 38 BARTLETT & CARTER .......................... . 2 3 Veterinary chemist:- Tarpaulin manufacturer:- W. H. JAMES ........ ........................ ......... 19 T. 13RIGGS .................. ··· ............... ··· ... ... 36 Vulcanized india rubber manufacturers:- Tent maker:- INDIA RUBBER, GUTTA PERCHA & T. BRIGGS • ... ............ ............ ... ......... ...... 36 TELEGRAPH WORKS CO. LIMITED.... 12 Tile merchants:- Wine & spirit merchants: ROBERTS, ADLARD & CO...................... r3 CRAMER & 00............... ... ....... .. ... ... ... ... 34 • ..

• INDEX TO • THE NUMBERS REFERRED TO ARE THE ADVERTISEMENT PAGES AT THE END OF THE BOOK. ABINGDON HERALD, Newspaper •..........•...•.. ACOTT S. & CO., Pianoforte & music merchants .•• AXTELL T., Builder & sanitary engineer ..•.••.•.... PAGE PA.G• 27 .TACKSON'S OXFORD JOURNAL, Newspaper.... 30 27 JAMES W. H., Horse blister manufacturer......... 19 27 JOHNSON R. J. & CO., Timber & slate merchants 19 :BANBURY GUARDIAN, Newspaper ..........••...... 27 BARTLETT & CARTER, Tailors & breeches makers 23 :BATES T. & SONS, Timber merchants............... z8 BATTING & SO:NS, Agricultural engineers.......... 28 BLAKE J., Hydraulic ram manufacturer ... ... ... ... 37 BLAKE T. H., Hotel....................................... 23 BRIGGS T., Spinner & manufacturer ................. . 36 :BROOKS E . .T., Auctioneer, valuer & surveyor... I 7 BUCKINGHAM ADVERTISER, Newspaper....... 29 BUCKINGHAM EXPRESS, Newspaper............. 29 BUCKS HERALD, Newspaper......................... 28 BUCKS STANDARD, Newspaper..................... 28 CANTWELL T. W., Builder & house decorator... 33 KEENE W., Job & post master........................ 33 KELLY & CO. LIMITED, Printers & publishers of the Post Office London & County Directories &c . .................... ........................ 13, 35, 39 & 40 KEMP W. A., Fishmonger & ice merchant ........... . LISEMORE J., Manufacturers' agent & importer... . .. ... ... ... ... ... ... .. . .. . . . . . .... . .. . ... ... . ... ... ... 20 LYLE -,Mineral water manufacturer ............ .•• 34 MALINS H. W., Cabinet maker & upholsterer...... 25 MALINS J. R., Plumber, glazier, paperhanger & decorator . . . ... . .. .... ... . . . ... .. . .. .. . . ... . . . . .. . . .. . . ... ... 2 5 MATTHEWS W. F., Furniture remover ........... . MEADS J., Cab & carriage proprietor ................ . 34 26 CLARE G., Hotel ................ ~ ......................... . 2 9 MOUSELL BROS., Furniture removers .......... .. 14 CLARIDG E & BLOXHAM, Builders, contractors MUCKLEY A., Hotel . ... ... .. . ... ... ...... ...... ... . .. . . . 34 & merchants . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . .. . . . . 2 3 NEWPORT PAGNELL GAZETTE, Newspaper. 31 24 NICHOLLS M. H., Hotel .............................. 33 NORTH B. & SONS, Chair manufacturers........ 31 CLEWS J., Brick, pipe & tile making machine manl1factu:rer ....................................... , .•.....• COALBROOKDALE CO. LIMITED, Engineers & 3 8 NUN~EY MRS. T., Hotel.............................. 33 ironfounders ................................................. . COCKERILL G., Hotel .............................. " ..... . 29 OXFORD TIMES, Newspaper ..................... ... 31 CRAMER & CO., Wine merchants & shippers 34 ...... CROSS G., grocer & provision dealer.................. 33 PEARCE G., Timber merchant........................ 31 PEN-YR-ORSEDD SLATE QUARRY CO. LIM... 35 CROXFORD E., Hotel ................................... . 34 RANDOLPH HOTEL CO. LIMITED................ 20 DALES F. & CO., Carriage builders................... 24 READING MERCURY, Newspaper................... 21 DARBISHIRE W. A., Quarry owner & slate mer... 35 READING OBSERVER, Newspaper.................. 21 DARLINGTON G., Builder & decorator............. 30 REEVE J. A., Galvanized wire netting manufactr. 26 DENNING REV. J. F. C., School.................... 33 ROBERTS, ADLARD & CO., Slate & tile mers •.. 13 DINNEFORD & CO., Magnesia manufacturers ...... DRAYTON J. A., Hotel .................................... . DYSO~ -, Pianoforte & organ tuner ............... .. EAST A. H., J3oat builder ................................ . • FOUNTAIN G., Stone & marble mason .............. . G ILES J. , Hotel ................................. ............ . GILL & CO., Ironmongers ................................. . HAMBT.ING W. G. A., Sanitary & general surveyor ................... ....... , .......................... . 10 SKULL W. & SON, Art chair manufacturers & 17 upholstere1 .. s . . . . ... . ... . .. . . . ... . . . ... ... . . . . . . .. . . .. . ... ... 22 34 SOUTH BUCKS FREE PRESS, Newspaper...... 32 24 SOUTH BUCKS STANDARD, Newspaper......... 32 STRINGER BROS., Iron & steel manufacturers .•• 15 2 5 STU:BBS' LIMITED, Mercantile offices ...... ...... ... 11 34 SUTTON & SONS, Seed growers & merchants...... 16 18 THOMPSON MISS H., School ......................... 35 TIDMARSH T. C., Linen & woollen draper ...... 35 I 8 TIMS T ., Boat builder ... ... .. . ... ... ... ... . . .. . . ... . . . ... 32 HARBROW W.,Iron buildings & roofing ma.nufactr 10 TOTTLE G., School ........................ ............... z6 HOLLAND S. & SON, Coal merchants................. 30 WEST J., Boot & punt proprietor..................... 35 WESTJ\'IERIA CO., Incubator manufacturers ... ... 32 HOLLAND J. S., Hotel .................................. . 34 HUNT C. H., Land agent, surveyor, auctioneer & WHITE MRS. T., School.................................... 22 3o WHITEHEAD J. & CO., })rick, tile & pipe mavaluer ..................................................... . INDIA RUBBER, GUTTA PERCHA & TELE- chinery manufacturers.................................... 36 GRAPH WORKS CO. LIMITED.................. 12 WILLCOX W. H. & 0., Engineers' stores.......... 13

>DxFORDSHIRE, sometimes called Oxon, is an inland shire; it ]ies along the north shore of the Thames, the windings of which it follows, and it is, therefore, very irregular in shape, being in some places only 7 miles across, and in others, as in the north-west, 28; its greatest length is about so miles; it runs in a north-west and south-east direction, having its longest dimensions on the river side; it contains 485,322 .acres, and had a population in 186r of qo,944; in 1871, 177,975; in 1881, 179,559; and in r891, 191,I9r, viz., males, 92,366; females, 98,825; the number of houses wereinhabited, 40,972; uninhabited, 3,104; building, 199, additi@ns having been made from N orthants and Berks. The county in the Pre-Roman era formed part of the territory of the Dobuni, but was included by the Romans in the provin.::e of Britannia Prima. Notable Druidical remains nist at Little Rollright, near Chipping Norton, while Roman remains exist at Dorchester, Chadlington, Alcester and Bicester, a Roman villa at North Leigh, and portions of Watling street and Icknield street traverse or enter the county. Soon after the departure of the Romans it was conquered by the Saxons and became part of the Mercia kingdom; battles were fought at Bensington, Banbury, Eynsham and Brampton; a small portion (Bampton and neighbourhood) being held by the king of Wessex, numerous battles took place between the rival kings, notably at Bicester, Burford and Bensington. In the seventh century St. Birinus of Rome was created first Bistop of Dorchester, and included both kingdoms in his diocese. In the Danish _incursions this county suffered severely; Oxford and Thame were destroyed ; numerous earthworks of this period remain. At the Norman conquest the county submitted quietly with the exception of Oxford, and the prosperity of the latter place consequently declined until the founding of Oseney Abbey on the Isis, to which the residence of the :Bishop was removed from Dorchester. The Bishopric was ::afterwards transferred to Lincoln, and again removed to Oxford and separately endowed by Henry VIII. Oxfordshire is bounded on the north hy Warwickshire .and by the river Cherwell and Northamptonshire, on the east by Buckinghamshire, on the south by the Thames and Berkshire, and on the west by Gloucestershire ; it is .a county having a very varied surface, from the lowlands {)f the river to high and bare chalk hills ; it belongs .Partly to the secondary formations and partly to the chalk, :and is traversed by the Chiltern Hills from south-east to north-east, and by other ranges. The soil on the river bank is a rich black mould ; in north Oxfordshire it is a very fertile red earth or clay ; in the midland district it is a de- -composed stone brash or limestone, with sand and loam; and in the Chilterns, or south-east, it is a sandy loam laid <On the chalk. The rivers are numerous, and mostly belong to the basin of the Thames, which is the chief water-way ; this river is popularly called the Thames throughout its -course, but is really the Isis until after its junction with the Thame; it enters the county at Lechlade, being navigable for -vessels of ninety tons ; its winding course forms the boundary ()( the county down to Henley. The Thame flows from Buck· inghamshire past Thame and crosses Oxfordshire, past Dorchester, to its junction with the Isis between Day's lock and Shillingford bridge ; after this junction the Isis is properly .called the Thames. The Windrush rises in Gloucestershire, in the Cotswold Hills, passes Burford and Witney, to the Isis. The Cherwell comes from Northamptonshire, enters Oxfordshire in the north near Claydon, and runs to the Isis near Oxford. The Evenlode rises in Worcestershire, and .after receiving the G-lyme, near W oodstock, falls into the Isis .about 4 miles from Oxford. The river Ray falls into the Cherwell. The Oxford canal enters the county at Claydon, -6 miles north of Banbury, and passes near the Cherwell to ()x:ford ; it was begun in 1769 and completed i;_l 1790. It is 91 miles long, extending from the city of Oxford in the south ' • to Longford in Warwickshire in the north, where it joins the Coventry canal. By the river Thames and the various canals Oxfordshire has water communication with nearly every part of England. Railway communication is effected mostly by the several branches of the Great Western ; from its main line it sends off branches from Twyford by Shiplake to Henley, and from Didcot to Oxford, and by the line from Didcot through N ewbury to Winchester direct connection is established with the South of England. From Oxford are lines in connection with the Great Western to Chipping N orton, Eves ham, Worcester, Droitwich, Kidderminster, Dudley and Wolverhampton; to Warwick and Birmingham, passing Kidlington (the junction for Blenheim and Woodstock) and Banbury; from Oxford also are branches to Thame, Princes Risborough, Aylesbury and Winslow, joining the North Western at the latter place and the main line of the G-reat Western at ~Iaidenbead. Lines are now open from Cheltenham to Chipping Norton and from the latter to Ban bury. From Watlington a line was made to Princes Risborough by the Watlington and Princes Risborough Railway Company, but is now owned by the G-reat Western railway. From Yarnton, on the Oxford and Worcester section of the Great Western, is a branch line through Witney and Burford to Lechlade and Fairford, Gloucestershire, taking in its route the fertile agricultural district of the Colne Valley. The London and North WestE-rn railway has a line Crom Bletchley, through Bicester, to Oxford; and from Verney junction on this line is a branch through Buckingham and Brackley to Baubury. The county is connected with the whole of the Southern system of railways by the Great Western, South Western and South Eastern lines. The climate of Oxfordshire is healthy, but rather colder than other southern parts of England. Large cnps are raised of wheat, barley, oats, turnips, lentils, rape, cabbages, carrots, potatoes, chicory and rhubarb. In the many rich meadows on the banks of the river and streams cattle are fed ; cheese is made. Many of the hills are wooded, and a good deal of copse wood is sent down the river ; on the hills sheep are fed ; some good hogs are also bred. The mineral productions are some coarse building stone, flints, Oxford clay (now little used for pottery), lime, slate and ochre (from Shotover Forest). The manufactures are blankets at Witney ; plush, shag and girth weaving and agricultural implements, portable engines &c. at Banbury, which is also famous for its cakes; and gloves and polished steel at Woodstock: tweeds are made at Chipping Norton, and there are paper mills on the banks of the Thames; lace is made by the country women. Chair making and turning are carried on to some extent, principally at Stokenchurch and Chinnor, near Tetsworth. Oxfordshire contains 288 civil parishes and parts of eighteen others, and is in the diocese and archdeaconry of Oxford, subdivided into the rural deaneries of Aston, Hicester, Chipping Norton, Cuddesdon, Deddingtou, Henley, !slip, Oxford and Witney. The shire town is Oxford. There are fourteen hundreds. The county is in the Oxford circuit and has one court of quarter sessions and ten petty sessional divisions. The Municipal boroughs are-Oxford City, population in 1891, 45,742; Banbury, 12,768; Chipping Norton, 4,222; Henley, 5,288 and Wo-)dstock, 1,628. Other towns . are Bicester, 3,343; Burford, 1,346; Thame, 3,334; Watling· ton, 1,734 ; Witney, 3, no . Oxford is a well-built city on the Thames; distinguished for its University, and is also the see of a bishop. Dorchester was the Roman station Durocina, and the seat of the bishop of the West Saxons and Mid-English. OX01f. 1

2 OXFORDSHIRE. [KELLY's The Registration districts areNo. Name. Area: Pop. 1891. 147 Henley .................• 6r, II3 .•.... 22,522 148 Thame .................. 55,623 ..•..• 13,389 149 Headington ..........•• 29,048 .••.•. 34,607 150 Oxford .................• r,528 .•.... 2r,8r3 151 Bicester ...........•...... 66,o88 ...... 13,983 152 Woodstock ............ 47,950 ...... 13,082 153 Witney .................. 77,795 ...... 21,215 154 Chipping Norton ...... 72,512 ...... 18,103 I 55 Banbnry ............... 78,489 •....• 29,496 'The following is a list of the several poor law unions, with the parishes and places contained in them :- BANBURY UNION. Alkerton Low. Boddington(N orthmptn) Appletree (Northampton) Middleton Cheney(Nrthmptn) Aston-le-Wall (Northampton )Milcombe Avon Dassett (Warwick) Milton Banbury Mollington (Oxon & Warwick) Barford St, Michael & St. Neithrop John North N ewington Bloxham Prescott (lordship) Hodicote Radway (Warwick) Bourton (Great & Little) Ratley (Warwick) (hamlet) Sheuington Broughton Shotteswell (Warwick) HEADINGTON UNION. Beckley Chippinghurst Cowley Cuddesdon Den ton Elsfield Forest Hill with Shotover Garsington Headington Bolton Horsepath Hortun-cum-Studley Iffiey Littlemore Mars ton St. Clement, Oxford St. Gilest Oxford St. John, Oxford Stanton St. John Stowood, or Stow Wool! Studley Wheatley WoodEaton HENLEY UNION. Bix Brightwell Baldwin Britwell Prior Britwell Salome Caversham Checkendon Cuxham Eye and Dunsden (liberty) Fawley (Bucks) Hambleden (Bucks) Harpsden Henley-on-Thames Ipsden Medmenham (Bucks) Nettlebed Nuffield Pis hill Pyrton Remenham (Berks) Rotherfield Greys Rotherfield Peppard Shiplake Swincombe or Swyncombe Watlington OXFORD INCORPORATION. Chalcombe (Northampton) Sibford-Ferris All Saints (Oxford) Chipping Warden (Nrthmptn)S1bFord-Gower Holywell, or St. Cross St. Mary Magdalen (Oxford) St. Mary the Virgin (Oxford) Clattercote South Newington Oxford University (part of) St. Michael (Oxford) Claydon Swalcliffe St. Aldate with the liberty St. Peter-le-Bailey (Oxford) St. Peter-in-the-East (Oxford}~ St. Thomas (Oxford) Cropredy Tadmarton of Grandpont (Oxford) Drayton Upper Boddington(Nrthmptn) I St. Ebbe (Oxford) East Adderbury Wardington St. Martin (Oxford) East Shutford Warkworth with Nethercote 1 Edgcott (Northampton) & Grimsbury (Northmptn) Epwell Warmington (Warwick) Farnborough (Warwick) WestAdderbury Hanwell West Shutford Hook N orton Wigginton' Horley Wroxton & Balscote Horn ton BICEI'lTER UNION. Ambrosden Ardley Arncot (hamlet) Bainton (hamlet) Bicester King's End Bicester Market End Blackthorn (hamlet) Bletcbington Boarstall (Bucks) Bucknell Ca versfield Charlton-upon-Otmoor Chesterton Cottisford Fencot and Murcot (hamlet) Fewcott (hamlet) Fringford Fritwell Goddington Hard wick Hethe Is lip Kirtlington Launton Lower Heyford Merton Middleton Stoney Newton Purcell Noke Oddington Piddington Shelswell Somerton Souldern Stoke Lyne Stratton Andley Tusmore Upper Heyford Wendlebury W eston-on-the-Green CHIPPING NORTON UNION. Ascott-under-Wychwood Barton-on-the-Heath (WarWICk) Bruern Chadlington Charlbury Chast!eton Chipping N orton Church Enstone Churchill Cleveley (hamlet) Cornbury Park Corn well Ens tone :Fawler Fifield Finstock Gagingwell (hamlet) Great Rollright Great Tew Heythrop and Dunthrop ldbury King ham Langley Lea field Lidstone (hamlet) Little Compton (Warwick) Little Rollright Little Tew Long Compton (Warwick) Lyneham Milton Neat Enstone Over Norton Radford Salford Sarsden Shipton-under-Wychwood Shorthampton Spelsbury Swerford Walcott (hamlet) Wychwood • THAME UNION. Ad well Little Milton Albury Long Crendon (Buckingham~ Ascot Oakley (Buckingham) I Aston Rowant Rofford (liberty) , Attington Rycote (liberty) 1 Brill (Buckingham) Shabbington (Buckingham) Chalgrove Shirburn Chilton (Buckingham) South Weston Chilworth Stoke Talmage Crowell Sydenham Dorton (Buckingham) Tetsworth Draycott (hamlet) Thame Easington Thomley (hamlet) Emmington Tiddington (hamlet) Great Haseley-with-Little Towersey (Buckingham) Haseley Tythrop (liberty) 1 Great Milton W arpsgrove Ickford (Bucknghm. & Oxfrd) Waterperry Kingsey Waterstock Latchford & Lobb Wheatfield Lewknor with Postcombe Worminghall (Buckingham)' WITNEY UNION. Alvescott Holwell Asthall with .Ashall Leigh Kencott Aston & Cote (hamlets) Lew Bampton with Weald Minster Lovell Black Bourton North Leigh Brighthampton (hamlet) Northmoor Brize N orton Osney Hill Broad well Ramsden Broughton Pogis (Gloucester Sh1fford (hamlet) & Oxford) Shilton Burford South Leigh Chimney (hamlet) Standlake Clanfield Stanton-Harcourt Coggs or Cogges Swinbrook Crawley (hamlet) Taynton Curbridge Upton and Signet (hamlets) Ducklington Weald (hamlet) Eynsham Westwell Filkins Widford Fulbrook Wilcote Hailey Witney Handborough Yelford Hardwick (hamlet) Asterleigh Barton Beg broke Bladon WoonsTOCK UNION. Blenheim Cassington Clifton Combe •

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. 3 Cutteslowe Rousham Deddington Sandford Duns Tew Shipton-npon-Cherwell Glympton Steeple Aston Gosford Steeple Bartou Hampton Gay Stonesfield Hampton Poyle Tackley Hempton (hamlet) Thrup Hensington ·water Eaton Kiddington, Over and NetherWestcott Barton Kidlington Woodstock Middle Aston W olvercott Nether W or ton W ootton North Aston Worton (hamlet) Over Worton Yarnton The following is a list of the hundreds with the parishes contained in them :- • Hundred of Bampton-Alvescott, Asthall, Bampton, Blackbourton, Brighthampton, Brize Norton, Broadwell, Broughton Pogis, Burford, Chimney, Clanfield, Cote and Aston, Crawley, Curbridge, Ducklington, I<"ilkins, Grafton, Hailey, Hardwick, Holwell, Kelmscott, Kencott, ~angford, Lew, Little Faringdon, Radcot, Shifford, Shdton, Standlake, Upton and Signet, Westwell, Widford, Witney, Yelford. Hundred of Banbury-Banbury, Bourton (Great and Little), Charlbury (part of), Clattercote, Claydon, Cropredy, East Shutford, Epwell, Fawler, Finstock, Neithrop, Prescott, Swalcliffe, Wardington, West Shutford. Hundred of Binfield-Bix, Caversbam, Eye and Dunsden, Harpsden, Henley-on-Thames, Rotherfield Greys, Ratherfield Peppard, Shiplake. Hundred of Bloxham-Alkerton, Barford St. John, Bloxham, Bodicote, Broughton, Drayton, East Adderbury, Hanwell, Horley, Hornton, Milcombe, Milton, Mollington (part of), North Newington, Shenington, Sibford Ferris, Sibford Gower, Tadmarton, West Adderbury, Wigginton, Wroxton. Hundred of Bullingdon-Albury, Ambrosden, Arncott, Baldon Marsh, Baldon Toot, Beckley, Blackthorn, Chiworth, Chippinghurst, Cowley, Cuddesdon, Deuton, Elsfield, Forest Hill, Garsington, Headington, Holton, Horsepath, Hortoncum-Studley, Iffiey, Littlemore (part of), Marston, "Merton. Nuneham Courtenay, Piddington St. Clement (Oxford), Sandford, Shotover, Stanton St. John, Stowood, Studley, Thomley, Tiddington, Waterperry, Wheatley, Wood Eaton. Hundred of Chadlington - Ascott-under-Wychwood, Bruern, Chadlington, Charlbury (part of), Chastleton, Chipping N orton, Churchill, Corn well, Ens tones, Fifield, Fulbrook, Great Rollright, Hook Norton, Idbury Kingham, Langley, Leafield, Little Rollright,Lyneham, Milton,Minster Lovell,N orth Moor, Over Norton, Ramsden, Salford, Sarsden, Shipton-under-Wychwood, Shorthampton, Spelsbury, Swerford, Swinbrook, Taynton, Wychwood. Hundred of Dorchester-Bensington or Benson (part of), Burcott,Chiselhampton, Clifton Hampden, Dorchester, Drayton, Stadhampton. Hundred of Ewelme-Bensington (part of), Berrick Salome, Brightwell Baldwin, Brightwell Prior, Chalgrove, Cuxham, Essington, Ewelme, Great Haseley, Ickford (part of), ~ ettlebed, Newington, Nuffield, Swincombe or Swyncombe, Warborough and Warpsg-rove. Hundred of Langtree-Checkendon, Crowmarsh Gifford, Goring, I psden, Maple Durham, Mongewell, N ewnham Murren, North Stoke and South Stoke, Whitchurch (part of). Hundred of Lewknor-Adwell, Aston Rowant, Brightwell Salome, Chinnor, Crowell, Emmington, Kin~sey (part of), Lewknor, Lewknor-up-Hill (part of), Stokenchurch, Sydenham. Oxford City and University-St. Giles (Oxford), St. John (Oxford). Oxford City-All Saints (Oxford), Holywell or St. Cross, Littlemore (part of), Oxford University (part of), St. Aldate (Oxford) (part of), St. Ebbe (Oxford), St. Martin (Oxford), St. Mary ~1agdalene (Oxford), St. Mary the Virgin (Oxford), St. Peter-le-Bailey (Oxford), St. Thomas (Oxford). Oxford Liberty-Binsey, Woodstock. Hundred of Pirton-Ibstone (part of), Pirton, Pishill, Shirburn, South Weston, Stoke Talmage, Watlington, Wheatfield. llundred of Ploughley-Ardley, Bicester King's End, Hundred of Thame-Ascott, Great Milton, Little Milton, Thame, Tetsworth, Waterstock. Hundred of Wootton-Barford St. Michael, Begbroke, Binsey, Bladon, Cassington, Coggs, Deddington, Duns Tew~ Ensham, Glympton, Gosford, Great 'few, Handborough, Hensington, Heythrop and Dunthrop, Kiddington, Kidlington, Little Tew, Long Combe, MiddleAston, NetherWort!ln, North Aston, North Leigh, Over W orton, Rous ham, Sandford, Sbtpton-upon-Cherwell, South Leigh, South Newington, Stanton Harcourt, Steeple Aston, Steeple Barton, Stonesfield, Tackley, Thrup, Water Eaton, Westcott Bartons. Wilcote, Wolvercott, Wootton, Yarnton. The Oxford County Lunatic Asylum, at Littlemore, nearOxford, is a large stone building; Richard Henry Heurtly Sankey M.R.C.S.Eng. resident medical superintendent;· Charles Howard Stewart L.R.C.P.Lond. assistant medical officer; Rev. Hayman Alfred James Cummings 'f.A.K.C.L. chaplain; •r. M. Davenport, clerk to the committee; William Thompson, steward and clerk to the asylum. Her Majesty's Prison, erected in r8o5, at a cost of about £19,000, from designs by Mr. Blackburn, architect, stands immediately within the southern precincts of Oxford Castle, and has incorporated with it some portion of the ancient fortress. The prison was enlarged in r858 by converting the governor's residence into a ward for female prisoners, and erecting a new house for the governor ; John Pullan, chief warder in charge; Rev. Joseph Knight Newton, chaplain; Henry Banks Spencer, M. D. medical officer. PAHLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION. Oxfordshire formerly returned three members for the undivided county, but under the provisions of the "Redistribution of Seats Act, I885,'' it Is now in three divisions, with one member for each division. No. r, the Northern or Banbury division, comprises the sessional divisions of Banbury and Bloxham, Chadlington and Wootton North and the Municipal borough of Banbury. No. 2, the Mid or Woodstock division, comprises the sessional divisions of Hampton East, Bampton West, Ploughley and W ootton South, so much of the municipal borough of Oxford as is included in the county of Oxford, the parishes of Beckley, Cutslow, Elstield, Forest Hill, with Shotover and Shotover Hill place, Hampton Gay, Hampton Poyle, Hortoncum-Studley, Noke, Stanton•St. John, Stowood, Studley and Wood Eaton; in Bullingdonsessional division, so much of the parishes of Headington, Marston, St. Clement's, St. Giles and Woolvercott as is not included in the Municipal borough, and so much of the parishes of Cowley and Iffiey as is included in the Parliamentary borough and not in the Municipal borough of Oxford. No. 3, the Southern or Henley division, comprises the sessional divisions of Henley, Watlington and Bullingdoa (except so much as is comprised in division No. 2), theMunicipal borough of Henley, and so much of the Municipal borough of Abingdon as is included in the county of Oxford. By the above mentioned Act the representation' of the boroughs of Banbury and W oodstock were merged in that of the county and the representation of the city of Oxford reduced to one member; the university still returns two members. COUNTY MEMBERS. Mid division, Godfrey Rathbone Benson esq. J.\LA. Norfolk house, ~ orfolk street, Strand, London W C & Oxford & Cambridge club, London SW Northern division, Sir BernhardSamuelson bart. F.R.S., J. P. Bodicote Grange, Ban bury; & 56 Prince's gate & Reform club, London S W Southern division, Hon. Francis Parker M. A. Wilton house. Hobart place & Carlton club, London S W MILITARY. Oxford is the depot. of Regimental District No. 43, 1\hch comprises the 1st battalion (43rd foot) & 2nd battalion (52nd foot) o( the Oxfordshire Light Infantry, to which are attached the Royal Bucks Militia & the Oxford Militia, comprising respectively the 3rd & 4th battalions ; the Bucks Militia is stationed at High Wycombe ; the barracks for the depot & the Oxford :Militia are in Cowley parish. Full particulars are given at p. 193 Bicester Market End, Bletchington, Bucknell, Caversfield, Yeomanry Cavalry. Charlton-upon-Otmoor, Chesterton, Cottesford, Fencott 2 nd Yeomanry Brigade. and Murcott, Finmere, Fringford, Fritwell, Hampto:p. Gay, Hampton Poyle, Goddington, Hardwicke, Hethe, Islip, Oxfordshire (Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars) K~rtlington, Launton, Lower Heyford, ~iddleton Stoney, . H~ad quarters, ~2 New Inn Hall s_tre:t .. :MIXbury, Newton Purcell, Noke, Oddmgton, Shelswell, Lteut.-Col. \- tscount Valentla M.P. commandwg, Lteut.-Col. Somerton, Souldern, Stoke Lyne, Stratton Audley, Tus-1 H. C. Norris, second in command; Surgem-::\Iajor H. more, Upper Heyford, Wendlebury, Weston-on-the-Green. P. Symonds, medical o!:ficer; Very Rev. F. Paget OXON. 1*

4 OXFORDSHIRE. [KELLY'S D. D. hon. chaplain; F. Howland, hon. regimental quarter master; John Stanfield, regimental sergeant- • maJor Squadrons-A, Capt J. F. Mason, commander, Banbury; detachments at Banbnry, Witney & Heythorp ; Lieut. C. W. Boyle, commander of Banbury detachment; 1:!, Capt. Sir Algernon Francis Peyton, hart. commander, Bicester; detachments at Bicester, Oxford & Henley-on-Thames VoLUNTEERS. FAIRS & MARKETS. Bampton, August 26 & 27, for horses Banbury, every alternate thursday, the thursday after Old Twelfth day (the horse fair commences on the preceding monday) the 1st thursday after Old Michaelmas day (for hiring servants), (holiday fair) & the 2nd thursday before Christmas; 3rd thursday in September for horses. Market day, thursday Home Counties Infantry Brigade. Bicester, friday in Easter week, rst friday in June & July, Formed of the rst, 2nd & 3rd Volunteer Battalions of the August 5 & 6, friday before & rst friday after October u Bedfordshire Regiment & friday after December rx. Market day, friday, & a 2nd Volunteer Battalion the Oxfordshire Light Infantry cattle market on the rst & 3rd friday in every month :rst Bucks Rifle Corps Burrord, last saturday in April, & September 25 for horses, The rst Volunteer Battalion Royal Berks Regiment cattle, sheep, cheese & toys. Market day, saturday for Supply Detachment & Bearer Company corn &c Head quarters, 19 Onslow gardens, South Kensington, I Charlbury, January 1 , & a cattle fair the rst monday in London SW month Place of Assembly, Guildford every Commanding Brigade, Col. Lord Wantage, V. C., K.C.B., V. D Chipping Sod bury, rst wednesday in every month, chiefly Aide-de-Camp, Capt. 0. J. Ellison, rst Volunteer Battalion for cattle & sheep: wednesday before & after October ro, Royal Berks Regiment for hiring servants. Market day, wednesday, chiefly for Brigade Major, Hon. Lieut.-Col. E. l\L Carter grain Supply & Transport Officer, Capt. H. T. Eve, 3rd Volun- Crowmarsh Gifford August 2 for horses teer Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment . ' ' Brigade- Surgeon- Lieut.-Col. H .. F. Holland M. D., V.D. Deddmgton, November 22 3rd Volunteer Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment Dorchester, Easter tuesday, for pleasure 2nd Volunteer Battalion Oxfordshire Light Infantry, head Henley-upon-Thames, March 7, Holy thursday, thursday quarters, 53 St. Jo~n street, Oxford: Staff :-H?n. Col. H. after Trinity sunday, & (for hiring servants) the thursday S. Hall, commandmg; W .. H. Austm V. D. maJOr i Capt. after September 21. Market day, thursday H. R. Stapleton Cotton, adJutant ; Hon. Capt. E. Jeffrey V.D, quarter master. Companies :-A & B, Capt. W. Ballard; Surg.-Capt. J. 0. Sankey & Surg.-Capt. G. Edsell, medical officers, Oxford; C & H, Capt. F. C. Aplin; Surg.-Capt. J. J. A. Raye V.C. medical officer, Banbury ; D, Capt. William H. V. Ames, Henley-onThames; E, Capt. P. G. Saunders, Drill hall, Albion street, Chipping Norton; F, 2nd Lieut. H. T. Ravenor; G, Rev. H. Lewis B. A. Culham college, Culham; Deddington detachment attached to C. ISt (Oxford University) Volunteer Battalion Oxfordshire Light Infantry. Staff :-G. H. Morrell V. D. lieut.-col.; Capt. S. D. Maul, adjutant; Surg.-Capt. W. L. M organ, medical otlicer. Companies :-A, Capt. J. C. Wilson; B, Capt. W. H. :Fairbrother ; C, Capt. D. H. Nagal ; D, Capt. Dixey; E, 2nd Lieut. Walker; F, Hon.Major R. L.Abbott; Mounted Infantry Co., Capt. R. L. Abbott; Cyclists Co., 1 Lieut. J. C. Wilson ; head quarters, 8 Alfred street, Oxford CHAMBER OF AGRICULTURE. Banbury di~trict, Lord North, president ; T. treasurer; William T. Warner, sec. Banbury E. Cobb, Nettlebed, monday before October 29 Oxford, St. Giles' fair the rst monday & tuesday after rst September (Feast of St. Giles ), if that day falls on monday the fair is held on the monday & tucsday following; also one on thursday before l\lichaelmas for toys. Market day, wednesday 'fhame, Easter tuesday for horses, cattle & pigs, & October I 1 & two following days for hiring servants. A Christmas fat cattle market on the rst tuesday after December 6. MaTket day, tuesday Watlington statute & pleasure fairs on the saturday before & the saturday after Old l\lichaelmas day Witney, thursday in Easter week, thursday after July 9, thursday after August 24, thursday following the first sunday after September 8, thursday before October 10 & thursday after December I for cattle & cheese. Fortnightly cattle & pig market & weekly corn maTket on thursdays Woodstock, ISt tuesday in October, for hiring servants. Market day, tuesday, & cattle market the 1st tuesday in each month The following Table shows the acreage under each kind of crop, and the number of horses, cattle, sheep and pigs in Oxfordshire, as taken from the Agricultural returns, 1893 :- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------. CROPS. Corn and cereals ...................................... . Roots, artificial grasses, cabbage, kohl-rabbi and rape...... . ...................................... . Clover and grasses .................................. . Pernl.anent pasture ................................. . Bare fallow ............................................. . Orchards ................................................ . Market gardens ......................................... . N nrsery grounds .................................... . Woods and plantations ............................. . ACRES. 48,736 46,roo 183,036 8,172 :r,859 312 63 24,466 LIVE STOCK. Horses for agrieulture, brood mares, and unbroken horses .................................... . Cows in milk or calf ................................ . Other cattle ......................................... . Sheep, I year old ................................... . Ditto, under 1 year ................................ . Pigs .................................................... . KUMBER. r8,oo6 20,591 40,515 16o,ogr II2,IOO 29,598 ------------------------------------------~---------------------------------------· Oxfordshire contained in 1891 inhabited houses ............................................... . l'arislles .................................................................................................. . In 1874 owners of land below 1 acre .................................................. . Owners of land of I acre and upwards ....................... " ....................... . 10,177 'fotal acreage of rated lands ... .. . ... .. ... . .. . . .. .. . .. . .. .. ... ......... .. ...... ... . .. ... . .. . ...... ... 45o,so8 Rateable value .......................................................................................... [940,746 Heath or mountain land used for grazing, acres................................................ r,ogs Total acreage of the county............................................................................ 48 5,322

DIREGrORY.J OXFORDSHIRE . • • LORD-LIEUTENANT AND CUSTOS ROTULORUM, THE RIGHT HON. EARL OF JERSEY P.C., G.C.M.G. Middleton park, Bicester; & Carlton & St. Stephen's·- Clubs, London SW. CHAIRMAN OF THE QUARTER SESSIONS. SIR WILLIA:M REYNELL ANSON, bart. D.C.L. All Souls College, Oxford. Marked thus "' are also Deputy Lieutenants. Abir.gdon Earl of, Wytham abbey, near Oxford Acland Captain William Alison Dyke R.N., F.R.G.S. 'Yoodvale, Cowes, Isle of Wight Anson Sir William Reynell bart. D.C.L. (chairman of quarter sessions), All Souls college, Oxford *Ashhurst William Henry esq. Waterstock house, Oxford Baker Rev. Robt. Lowbridge M.A. Ramsden ho. Oxford Ban bury Gabriel George esq. Hill house, 1Yoodstock *Barnett Col. Henry, Glympton park, near Woodstock; & 15 Halkin street west, London S W *Baskerville Col. Jn. Crowsley pk. nr. Henley-on-Thames Batt Charles Dorrington l'fl.B. The Hill, Witney Bellairs Rev. Canon Henry Walford M.A. Apsley Paddox, Summertown, Oxford Bellamy Rev. James D.D. The President's lodgings, St. John's college, Oxford Birch-Reynardson William John esq. B.A. Prebendal house, Aylesbury Biscot Henry Stafford Tyndale elsq. Holton park, Oxford Bowen James Benjamin, esq. Chipping Norton Bowly Frank esq. Charlbury S.O Bradshaw Vice Admiral Richard C.B. The Grange, St-eeple Aston, Oxford *Brassey Albert esq. B.A. Heythrop park, near Chipping Norton; & 29 Berkeley square, London W Brewis Samuel Richard esq. Ibstone house, Tetsworth Brodrick The Hon. George Charles F.R. G. S., D.C.L. Merton college, Oxford *Brown Hy. Clerke esq. Kingston Blount, nr. Tetsworth Burbidge Thos. Hy. esq. The Bank, Chipping Norton Byass Robert Nicholl esq. Wyck hill, Stow-on-the-Wold *Oamoys Lord, The Warren, Stonor, nr.Henley-on-Thams Carter Rev. Canon William Edward Dickson M.A. Sarsden rectory, near Chipping Norton Cartwright Aubrey Thomas Carter esq. Edgcote house, near Banbury Cartwright William Cornwallis esq. Aynhoe,nr.Banbury Cheatle Thomrus Henry esq. Burford R.S.O Child Gilbert William esq. M.A., M.D., F.L.S. Headington Hill, Oxford Cobb Timothy Edward esq. 11 St. Giles' st. Oxford Cottrell-Dormer Capt. Chas. Walt. Middle Aston,Oxford Crisp Frank esq. Friar park, Henley-on-Thames Cunningham Rev. Francis Macaulay M.A. The Rectory, Brightwell, near Wallingford *Darell-Blount John esq. Alverbank, Alve:rtstoke, Gasport ; & Calehill, Ashford, Kent Dashwood Major Frederick Loftus, 7 Morpeth mansions, Westminster, London SW *Dashwood Sir George John Egerton bart. Warwick Davis Robt. Snow Bolton esq.Swerford prk. nr.Enstone De Mauley Lord,Langford ho.Lit. Faringdon,LechladeS.p Deverell Alfred esq. Attinglion hoUJse, Tetsworth Devereux Major-Gen. Hon. George Talbot R.A. Heathfield house, Bletchington, Oxford *Dewar William Wemyss Methven esq. Cotmore house, Fringford, near Bicester Ducie The Right Hon. Earl of P.C., F.R.S. Tortworth court, Falfield R.S.O. Gloucestershire; & 16 Portman square, London W Duff Robert Fraser esq. Checkendon court, Reading Early Charles esq. Newland, Witney England Lt.-Col.Albt.Edwd.R.A.Soulderne manor,Banbry Fane Major John Augustus, \Vormsley, Tetsworth; & 13 \Voodlands road, Barnes S W Fanshawe Lieut.-Col. Hew Dalrymple Fielden Edward Brock1ehurst esq. Longford ball, Newport, Salop Forbes Alexander Clark esq. ""\Yhitchurch, Reading *Foster John esq. Combe park, ·vvhitchurch, Reading Foster-Melliar William ~Ielliar esq. Nor-th Aston ball, Deddington, Oxford *Fox ·wm. Hy. esq. B.A. Bradwell gro. Burford R.S.O *Fraser Alex. Caspar esq. Mongewell house, Wallingford Gaskell Capt. Hy. Brooks, 3 ::\Iarble arch, London W Goddard Horatio Nelson esq. M.A. The Manor, Clyffe, ·wootton Bassett, Swindon Hall Alex. Nelson esq. Cornwell manor, Chipping Norton *Hall Alex. Wm. esq.Barton abbey,SteepleAston, Oxford. *HaiiLersley Edwd. Sl. esq. Pyrton manor, nr. Tetswrth Harcourt Aubrey esq. Nuneham park, near Abingdon Harris Rev. Thos. B.D. Swerford rectory, nr. Enstone Harrison Edwd. Slater- esq. Shelswell prk. nr. Bicester Harrison Robert Hitchens Camden esq. Shiplake court, Henley-on-Thames Hedges John Kirby esq. Wallingford castle,Wallingford *Henley Jsph.Jn. esq.C.B.Waterperry house, nr. Oxford Hermon-Hodge Robert Trotter esq. M.A. Wyfold court,.. Readin~ Hiorns Edwin esq. Woodstock *Hoare Charles Twysden esq. Bignell, Bicester Badges Hy. esq. Bolney court, Harpsden, Henley-on-Thms Hoskyns Leigh esq. B.A. Baldon house, Oxford Hunt John William esq. Kingsend house, Bicester Burst Robert Henry esq. M.A. Horsham park, Sussex Jenkins Wm. Hy. Phillips esq. Baglan ho. Briwn Ferry Jersey The Right Hon. Earl of P.C., G.C.M.G. (Lord Lieutenant), Middleton park, near Bicester; Carlton & St. Stephens' clubs, London SW; & Osterley park, Middlesex Lacey Samuel esq. The Poplars, Thame Lenthall Edmd. Kyffin esq. Besselsleigh manr.Abingdon Leslie-Melville-Cartwright Thomas Robert Brook esq. Newbottle manor, Banbury Littleboy William esq. Crowmarsh mills, Preston Crowmarsh, Wallingford Lockwood Edward Dowdeswell esq. Kingham, Chipping Norton Loveday George esq. ~Ianor ho. Wardington, Banbury Loveday Jn. Edwd. Taylor esq. The Lodge, Rugby *~facclesfield Earl of, Shirburn castle, near Tetsworth; & 94 Eaton square, London S W Mackenzie William Dalziel :M.A. esq. Fawley court, nr. Henley-on-Thames; &35Park st.Grosvenor sq.LondonW Mackenzie William Roderick Dalziel esq.Soundess, Nettlebed, Henley-on-Thames Maddox John Fowler esq. Shipton-under-the-Wychwood, Chipping N orton Magrath Rev. John Richard D.D. Queen's college,Oxford Makins Basil Thomas eosq *::\Iakins Col. \Villiam Thomas, Rother:field court, near Henley-on-Thames; & 1 Essex court, Temple,LondnEC Markby SirWm. K.C.I.E., D.C.L. Headington hl.Oxford Marlborough His Grace the Duke of, Blenheim palace, Woodstock Marsham Charles J~ob Bullock- esq. Caversfield house, near Bicester

6 OXFORDSHIRE. (KELLY'S Mason James esq. Eynsham hall, Oxford; & 27 Grosvenor square, London W Mason James Francis esq. Eynsham hall, Oxford *Mewburn William esq. Wykham park, Banbury *Miller Lieut.-Col. James, Shotover park, near Oxford; & 84 Portland place, London W Molyneux Lieut.-Col. the Hon. Caryl Craven, The Red house, Bodicote, Banbury Moreton Lord, Sarsden house, Chipping Norton Morrell Charles esq. Milton hill, Steventon R.S. 0 *Morrell George Herbert esq. M.A., B.C.L. Headington Hill hall, Oxford Norreys Lord, 38 Great Cumberland pl. London W Norris Lt.-Col. Hy. Crawley, Swalcliffe park, nr.Banbury North Lord, Wroxton abbey, Banbury; & 51 Cromwell houses, South Kensington, London S W Ogle Bertram Savile esq. M.A. Hill house, Steeple Aston, near Oxford O'Malley Sir Edward Loughlin M.A. Dentan house, Cuddesdon, Oxford Oxford The Rev. The Vice-Chancellor of the University of (ex-officio) Ovey Richard esq. Badgemore, Henley-on-Thames 'Parsons Herbert esq. The Manor ho. Elsfield, nr. Oxford Peyton Capt. Sir Algernon Fras. bart. Swifts ho.Bicstr Phillimore Sir Walter George Frank ba.rt, D.C.L. The Coppice, Henley-on-Thames; & 86 Ea ton pl. LondonSW Plowden Sir William Chichele K.C.S.I. .Aston house, Tetworth; & 5 Park cooscent, Portland pl. London W *Ponsonby The Hon. Edwin Charles William, Woodleys, W oodst.ock Radcli:ff6 Lieut.-General Robert Parker R.A. Balmore, Caversham, Reading Raikes Robert esq. Harpsden court, Henley-o-n-Thames Risley Holford Cotton esq. Deddington, Oxford *Samuda. Cecil D' Aguilar esq. Bruern abbey, Chipping Norton Samuelson Sir Bernhard ba.rt. M.P., F.R.S. Bodicote grange, Ban bury; & 56 Prince's gate, London S W Samuelson Ernest esq. M.I.C.E. Bodicote grnge.Banbury Saunders Fredk. George esq. Caversham gro. Reading *Saye & Sele Lord, Sunbury house, Reading Simonds Henry John esq. M.A. The Rect{)ry, Caversham, near Reading Smith William esq. Windrush house, Witney Snagge His Horror Judge Thomas· William M . .A. 14 Courtfie1d gardens, London SW Southby Philip esq. Bampton, nea.r Faringdon Spencer Rev. Charles Vere M.A. Wheatfield rectory, near Tetsworth Staples-Browne Fredk. John esq. Bampton, Faringdon Stapleton Sir. Fras. Geo. bart. Grey's crt.Henly.-on-Thms Starkey John Frederick esq. Bodicote house, Banbury Symons-Jeune John Frederic esq. Watlin.gton park, Watlington, Tetsworth Thomas Col. Henry John R.A. 92 Barley st. London W Thomson John esq. M.A. Woodperry house, nr. Oxford *Thornhill Charles Edward esq. Seven springs, South Park road, Oxford Valentia Viscount M.P. Bletchington park, near Oxford Vandestegen Henry Brigham Douglas esq. Cane End house, Kidmore, Reading Vanner John esq. Springfields, Banbury Waller Capt. John Hampden, Lee Place, Charlbury S.O Webb .Alfred Adolphus esq. Chipping Norton *Weyland John esq. Wood Eaton, near Oxford Weyland Mark Ulick esq. Wood Eaton, near Oxford Willoughby Capt. Sir John: Christopher bart. Fulmer house, Slough; & ro Park pi. St. Ja.mes'•s, LondonSW Wilson Joseph Henry esq. The Priory, Caversham park, near Reading Wingfield Edward Rhys esq. Barringtcm park, Faringdon; & rg Prince's gardens, London S W Witherington Dtid Evans esq. Duwsdan lodge, Bicester Withington Rev. Edwd. M.A. Fringford lodge, Bicester *Wykeham Philip Jas. Digby esq. Tythrop ho. Thame *1Vykeham-~Iusgra;ve Wenman Aubrey esq. Thame park, Thame Wynn Henry Bertie Watkin-Williams- esq. Howbery pk. near Wallingford; & 23 Chesham place, London SW Wynne Llewellyn Malcolm esq. Cornbury park, Oxford; & 34 Berkeley square, London S W Wynter Philip Henry Mascie esq. The Rays, Charlbury, Ramsden, Oxford! Clerk of the Peace & to the Lieutenancy, Thomas M. Davenport, Oxford'. DEPUTY.LIEUTENANTS (NoT MAGISTRATES). Ba.rrington The Viscount,Beckett,ShrivenhamR. S. 0 .Bucks Cole Edward Campbell Stuail"t esq. 14 Cromwell road, West Brighton Muirbead Jas. Patrick esq. M. A. Haseley crt. Tetsworth Ponsonby The Hon. Frederick John William, Langford house, Lechlade; & 14 Chapel street, Grosvenor sq. London SW COUNTY POLICE. HEAD QUARTERS, OXFORD. Chairman of Police Committee, Charles Edward Thornhill esq. Oxford. Chief Constable, Lieut.-Col. The Hon. E. A. Holmes a Court, Oxford. Deputy Chief Constable, Ricbara Fernsby, Oxford. The force consists of r chief constable, I deputy chief constable, 6 superintendents, 5 inspectors, Io sergeants & 86 constables. Divisional Stations. :Bampton East Division, Willia.m Leech, Witney, superintendent. Sta.tions-Aston Coa.te, Bampton, Ensham, ;MinS~ter Lovell, Standlake, tWitney Bampton West Division, Job Cooke, Burford, inspector. Stations-:Burford, Brizenorton, Filkins Banbury & Bloxham Division, Francis Keal, County station, Banbury, superintendent. Stations-Adderbury, Banbury, tBioxham, Cropedy, Hornton, Tadmarton, Wroxton Bullingdon Divis.ion, Richard Fedsby, Oxford, superintendent & deputy chief constable; Jarnes Smith, Oxford, inspector; Charles Cox, tThame, sergeant. Stations~Beckley, Cowley, Culha.m, Dorchester, Garsington, Headington, Marston, Nuneham, Oxford, Summertown, Tetsworth, Thame, tWheatley · Chadlington Division, Stephen Sutton, Chipping N orton, supe-rintendent. S'tat~ons Charllington, tOharlbury, Ohipping Norton, Churchill, Enstone, Hooknortun, :Ramsden, Shipton Henley Division, ThomaS> J ennings, Henley, superintendent; Daniel Hope, Caversham, inspector. Stations -Binfield Heath, Caversham, tGoring, tHenley, Stoke Row, Whitchurch Ploughley Division, Joseph Bowen, Bicester, superinten~ dent. Stations-Bicester, Fritwell, Hethe, Islip, tKirtlington, Launton Watlington Division, Edwin H. Hawtin, Watlington, superintendent. Stations1 Bensington, Brookhamp· ton, Chinnor, Great Basely, Lewknor, Stokenchurch, tWatlington Wootton North Division, John Wright, Deddington, in· spector. Stations-Deddington, Great Tew, Steeple As ton, W estcot Barton Wootton South Division, George Sorrell, Woodstock, inspector. StationS'-Handborough, Kidlington, Wood~ stock, W ootton Marked thus t a.re Sergeants' stations.

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. OXFORD COUNTY COUNCIL. Local Government Act, 18881 5I & 52 Vir. c. 41. .Under the above Act, Oxfordshire, except a certain borough, see below (a), after the 1st April, I 889, for the purposes of the Act, became an administrative county (sec. 46), governed by a County Council, consisting of chairman, aldermen and councillors (the number of councillors being determined by the Local Government Board) to be elected in manner prescribed by the Act (sec. 2). 'The chairman is, by virtue of his office, a justice of the peace for the county, without qualification (sec. 46). "The police for the county are under the control of a standing j<Jint committee of the Quarter Sessions and the County Council, appointed as therein mentioned (sec 9). I The coroners for the county are elected by the County Council, and the clerk of the peace appointed by such joint committee, and may be removed by them (sec. 83-2). The clerk of the peace for the county is also clerk of the County Council (sec. 83-1). The administrative business of the county (which would, if this Act had not been passed, have been transacted by the justices) is now transacted by the County Council. (a) The following borough shall be, for the purposes of this Act, an administrative county in itself, called a County Borough (sec. 3 I), of which the Municipal Corp@ration shall have the power of a County Council-The City of Oxford. The Council meet at the County hall, Oxford, on the second Wednesdays 1n February, March, May & November & the first Wednesday in .August. CHAIRMAN-Viscount Valentia M.P. Bletchington park. VICE-CHAIRMAN-Timothy E. Cobb, Esq. Oxford . .ALDERMEN. Retire in 18g8. :Baker Rev. Robert Lowbridge M.A., J.P. Ramsden house, Charlbury S.O Bradshaw Vice-Admiral Richard C.B., J.P. The Grange, Steeple Aston, Oxford Darell-Blount John D.L., J.P. Mapledurham, Reading .Henley Joseph John C.B., D.L., J.P. Waterperry ho. Oxford Parrott Benjamin, Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxford SamuelsonSir Bernhard hart. M.P. 56 Prince's gte. LondonS W Saye & Sele Lord D.L., J.P. Sunbury house, Reading · Tubb John Walter, Tusmore, Bicester Retire in 1go1. Barnett Henry D.L., J.P. Glympton park, Woodstock Bliss William, Chipping Norton Denchfield William, Easington farm, Banbury Dewar William Wemyss Methven D.L., J.P. Cotmore house Bicester Morrell George Herbert M . .A., B.C.L., D.L., J.P. Heading ton Hill hall, Oxford Newton William, Crowmarsh Battle, Wallingford Savidge Matthew, Shipton, Chipping Norton COUNCILLORS. Electoral Division. Names & .Addresses. Electoral Division. Names & .Addresses. '.Bampton ............ Philip Southby J.P. Bampton, Faringdon Headington ......... Sir William Markby K.C.I.E., D.C.L., .Banbury ............. William Edmunds, Dashwood lodge, J.P. Headington Hill, Oxford Neithrop, Banbury Henley ................ .Archibald Brakspear, BelleHatch,Henley ~Barton ............... Alexander William Hall D.L., J.P. Bar- Heyford ............. Earl of Jersey P.C., G.C.M.G. Middle· ton Abbey ' ton park, Bicester Benson ............... Jn.PittmanKing, Northstoke,Wallingfrd Hook Norton ....... George Hawtin Hall, Swalcliffe, Banbury Bicester ............. Henry Tubb, Chesterton house, Bicester Kidlington .......... Fredk. Hutt, l\Iill ho. Kidlington, Oxford . Bletchington ....... Viscount ValentiaM.P.Bletchington park, King ham ............ Fredk.HubertFreer, Kitebrook,Castleton Oxford Launton .............. Edward Harper, .Arncott lHoxham ............ Timothy Edward Cobb J.P. 14 St. Giles' Littlemore ........... Sir William James Herschel bart. M . .A. street, Oxford Lawn Upton, Littlemore .Broadwell ............ William Henry Fox B..A., D.L., J.P. Great Milton ........ William Henry Ashhurst, Waterstock Bradwell grove, Burford house, Oxford Burford ............. John Jacobs, Signet, Burford North Neithrop .... J. P. Barford, Banbury •<Javersham ......... Henry John Simonds M . .A., J.P. Rectory, South N eithrop .... Chas.Hy. Davids,Boddicot lawn,Banbury Caversham, Reading Nettlebed ............ Wm. Thos. Twidell, Ruffield, Wallingford .Charlbury ........... John George Abraham, Lower court, Rotherfield ......... Col. John Baskerville D.L., J.P. CrowsChadlington ley park, Henley .Chipping Norton ... .Alfred Adolphus Webb J.P. Market Standlake ........... Arthur Blake, StantonHarcourt, Oxford place, Chipping Norton Stanton St. John .. George Clement Sheldon, Stanton St. Cropredy ............ Francis Durant Hunt, Wardington John, Oxford . Deddington .......... Holford Cotton Risley J. P. Deddington, Stokenchurch ...... Thomas Henry White, The Chilterns, Oxford Princes Risborough Dorchester .......... Vacant Thame ............... Samuel Lacey J. P. The Poplars, Thame .Enstone ............. Albert Brassey B. A., J.P. Heythrop park, Tetsworth ........... Philip James Dig by Wykeham D.L., Chipping Norton J.P. Tythrop house, Thame Eynsham ............ James Charles Watts, Weeland,Eynsham Watlington ......... Edward S. Hamersley D.L., J.P. Tyrton Fringford ......... ~·•Edward Slater Harrison J.P. Shelswell manor, Watlington park, Bicester Wheatley ............ Harry Gale, Garsin~ton 'Goring ............... Alexander Clark Forbes J.P. Whitchurch, Witney ............... Wm. Smith J.P. Windrush ho. W1tney Reading Woodstock .......... Duke of Marlborough J.P. Blenheim 'Grimsbury ......... William Thomas Warner, 52 Middleton palace, Woodstock road, Grimsbury, Banbury Wroxton ............ Lord NorthJ.P. Wroxtonabbey,Banbury Hailey ................ Ja.mes Vanner Early, Springfield, Hailey, Wychwood ........... Jsph.Reade M . .A. Shipton court,Shipton. Witney under-\Yychwood, Chipping Norton •

8 OXFORDSHIRE. (KELLY1 S LIST OF THE MEMBERS OF 'rHE COUNTY COUNCIL OF OXFORDSHIRE ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY, AND THE ELECTORAL DIVISIONS FOR WHICH THEY RESPECTIVELY SIT. Name. Electoral Division. Name. Electoral Division.. Abrabam J .. G ... u •••••••••••• ........ Charlbury Hutt F .. ..................................... Kidlington Ashhurst W. H ......•.................. Great Milton Jacobs ] .................................. Burford Barford J. P ........................... NorthNeithrop Jersey Earl of, P.C., G.C.M.G .... Heyford Baskerville Col. J. D.L., J.P ....... Rotherfield King J. P ............................... Benson Blake A. .. .. . . ...... ... . . . . .. . . . ... . . . ... Standlake Lacey S., J. P. .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. . . . . . . . .. Thame Brakspear A............................. Henley Ma1 r_kPb. Y __ s_ ·i·r· w_ .•. • .. ' K. _._c_ ... 1. _.E. ·.·.D... C. ·.·.L ..·•. } Headington Brassey A., .H.A., J.P ................ Enstone Cobb T. E., J.P ........................ Bloxham Marlborough Duke of, J.P .......... Woodstock Davids C. H ............................. South Neithrop North Lord, J.P ....................... Wroxton Early J. V ............................... Bailey Reade J., M.A .......................... Wychwood Edmunds W ............................ Banbury Risley H. C., J.P ...................... Deddington Forbes A. C., J.P ...................... Goring Sheldon G. C ........................... Stanton St. John Fox W. H., B.A., D.L., J.P., ....... Broadwell Simonds H. J., M.A., J.P .......... Caversham l<'ranklin T ............................... Dorchester Smith W., J.P .......................... Witney :Freer F. H ............................... Kingha1n Southby P., J.P ........................ Bampton Gale H .................................... Wheatley Tubb H . ................................. Bicester Hall A. W., D.L., J.P ................ Barton Twidell W. T ........................... Nettlebed Hall G. H ............................... Hook Norton Valentia Viscount M.P ............... Bletchington Hamersley E. S., D.L., J.P ....... Watlington Warner W. T ........................... Grimsbury Harper E . .............................. Launton "'atts J. C ............................... Eynsham Harrison E. S., J.P ................... Fringford Webb A. A., J.P ....................... Chipping Norton Herschel Sir W. J. hart., M.A ..... Littlemore White T. H .............................. Stokenchurch Hunt F. D ............................... Cropredy Wykeham P. J. D., D.L., J.P ..... Tetsworth COUNTY OFFICIALS. Clerk of the County Council, Thomas M. Davenport l\f.A. ; offices, County hall, Oxford Treasurer, John Parsons, Old Bank, Oxford Analyst, Waiter William Fisher M.A. University museum, Oxford Secretary of Technical Instruction, P. Elford M.A. IDS St_ Aldates, Oxford Surveyor, Henry James Tollitt, 7 St. Aldate street, Oxford .lnspector of Weights & Measures, R. S. Doubleday, Titmouse lane, New road, Oxford Coroners-Central district, William Wharton Robinson ; r4 New road, Oxford : Northern district, George Coggins,. Deddington : Southern district, Henry Dixon, Shirburn street, Watlington: Western district, Frederick Westell • High street, Witney: deputy, J<'rederick John Daniel Westell M.A. High street, Witney \ 0 0 • - •

DIRECT0RY.] OXFORDSHIRE. 9 THE GEOLOGY OF OXFORDSHIRE. NATURAL HISTORY AND ScmNTIFIO SoomTms.-Ashrnolean Society; Oxford. Transactions and Proceedings. Oxford Natural History Society. Banbury Natural History Society and Field Club. MusEuMs.-The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. The Bodleia.n Library and Museum, Oxford. The New University Museum, Oxford. Museum at Wadham College, Oxford. PUBLICATIONS OF GEOLOGICAL8URVEY.-Maps.-Sheets: 7 Wendover,High Wycombe; I3 Oxford, Reading, Wantage; 34 Fairford; 44 Burford. Quarter-sheets: 45N. W.Banbury, Deddington ; Chipping N ortoil ; 45 S. W. W oodstock, Witney ; 45 N.E. Bl'lckingham, Brackley; 45 S.E. Bicester, Brill; 53 S.E. Towcester, DJ.ventry, W eedon; 53 S. W. Southam, Kingston. Books.-The Geology of Part of Oxfordshire and Berkshire, by Hull & Whitaker, 3s. ; Geology of Country round Banbury, Woolstock, Bicester, and Buckingham, A. H. Green, 2s.; Geology of the Country round W oodstock, by E. Hull, IS.; Geology of the London Basin, by W. Whitaker, 13s. IMPORTANT WottK:'l OR PAPERS ON LOCAL GEOLOGY.- 1859- Hull, E.-South-Easterly Attenuation of the Lower ~acondary Rocks, and Probable Depth of the Coal-measures under Oxfordshira. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xvi. p. 63. 1859 Pilillips, Professor J.-sactions of the Strata near Oxford. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xvi. pp. II5, 307. 1861. Whitaker W.-On the Chalk in Oxfordshire. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xvli. p. 166. 1871. Phillips, Professor J.-Geology of Oxford and the Thames Valley, 21s. THE RocKs of this county have been well studied, both by those men who laid the foundations of science and geJlo,sy in the first half of the present century, and by their successors of to-day. Professor Buckland, who was rector of Islip (where he is buried) and Professor of Geology in Oxford University, wrote several papers on the subject. With him may be named Fitton, Strickland, and Ogilvy. Tha late Professor J. Phillips, of Oxford, gave us a capital work in his "Geology of Oxford and the Thames Valley." The Government geological maps of the county were published between 1859 and 1863, the work having been chiefly done by Messrs. Hull and Whitaker, and descriptive memoirs by these gentlemen and. by Mr. Green have since been issued. Large collections of fossils were made by Mr. Whiteaves, and Professor Owen has frequently described the huge reptiles whose bones are not uncommon in the oolitic strata. The scenery of the central portion of Oxfordshire, where clays predominate, is somewhat dull and fiat, but in the north-west, and in the chalk ridge which occupies the south-east corner, we get some respectable elevations. The oldest rocks are found in the extreme north-west, and as we walk thence towards the chalk, we are continually passing over newer and newer beds which lie one upon the other, all having a general slant or dip towards the southeast. If on the contrary we walk towards the north-east or south-west, we can often manage to keep on one bed of rock all the way, because the different formations extend or strike in long irregUlar lines in that direction. By a deep boring made near Burford, the interesting fact was ascertained that Coal-measures underlie Oxfordshire, at a depth, in this spot, of 1,184 feet ; the cores brought up were full of fossil ferns. THE LIAs.-Commencing in the north-west we find the eastern portion of the Vale of Moreton to be composed of bluish clays-the Lower Lias-which also reach along the valley of the Cherwell as fa.r as Steeple Aston, and along either side of the river Evenlode to near Charlbury; these Lower Lias clays contain a bed of hard shelly limestone called Banbury Marble, which takes a fair polish, and is worked into chimney-pieces &c. The Middle Lias or Marlstane forms a prominent ridge overlooking this flat country, and ascending it we find ourselves on a plateau of the rock, which is a sandy limestone tinged red by oxide of iron, extending for 5 or 6 miles north-west and south of Banbury: this hard top band is termed the Rock-bed. The fossils found in the beds beneath, which ara usually sandy clays 40 or 50 feet thick, show that they belong to the 1\Iarlstone, but from want of sections it is almost imp9ssible to separate them from the great mass of :Lower Lias clays beneatl:l. The Rock-bed is largely worked far building and for road-metal ; when dug at any depth, orunder a covering of clay, it is a hard bluish limestone ; where it has been much exposed to atmospheric influences, it has. weathered brown, and has become comparatively friable. In this state it yields brown hematite a valuable iron orewhich has been largely worked at Adderbury, north of Deddington: here 36,8o8 tons were dug .in 1874, valued at £7,721; but in 1879 only I,233 tons, valued at £21.6, wereobtained. At Fawler,. Swalcliffe, and several other points the ore is of good quality, and will doubtless be worked at a future day. From Burford t.o Charlbury the thickness of. the Rock-bed varies from 10 to 20 feet. Fossils are common,. such shells as Rhynchonella and Te:rebratula forming masses-. called "jacks " by the workmen. Upper Lias Clays.-These are bluish clays which onceeverywhere covered up the Marlstone; they have been so-- denuded, however, as· now only to exist in narrow strips,. and in detached patches 'Called outliers. As we follow them. along a narrow strip on each side of the valley of the Evenlode they become thinner and thinner, until between Charlbury and Stonesfield they entirely disappear. It results frorm this that a boring, say near Oxford, might possibly reach, coal at a dep~h of less than 200 feet. In sections near Ban~ bury the beds are very fossiliferous, containing numerous.. Ammonites, &c. This district has been well worked by; Messrs. T. Beesley and E. A. Walford. • TaE OOLITB.-InNorth Oxfordshire we find, resting upon the Upper Lias Clays, some sandy beds, here changing int(} a white oolitic freestone, as at Brailes Hill, or into ironstone9 as at Mine Hill. ~henlow Hill, which rises to a height of 836 feet, is capped with these sands, as is also Epwell Hill, ~ little south of it. South of these points the sands spread out. considerably, covering the Rollwright Ridge, and extending southwards to Chipping Norton, and eastwards to Dunstew and Steeple Aston. The term Northampton Sand has been applied to these beds, but it is very important to understand, that here they really include two formations, the lower part containing JDarine shells and belonging to the Inferivr Oolit~ and the upper portion almost destitute of fossils, except wood and plants markings, being of Great Oolite age. In fact in. North Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire we have a thick. bed of limestone between these two sandy beds which have here run together, and are almost undistinguishable. A mmanites Murchisonm is a very characteristic fossil of the lower division. Great or Bath Oolite.-At the base of this well-known series occurs the "Stonefield Slate," which is a laminated sandstone, splitting readily along the bedding planes int() slabs thin enough to be used for roofing. The working of the slates is very expensive, and they are now only used for architectural effect. They have produced a large number of fossils, indicating their formation in shallow water. Trigonia impressa is the commonest shell, but the most remarkable fossils are the lower jaws of four small species of mammals,. which are the oldest known except those in the Upper Trias_ In similar beds at Sarsden, the Earl of Ducie obtained the, lower jaw of a pterodactyle-an extinct species of flying reptile •. Many l'lections of beds belonging to the lower part of the Great Oolite are exposed on both sides of the valleys of the Evenlode and the Dorne. At Taynton, near Burford, thesa· beds have been extensively quarried, and the oldest buildings. in Oxford are of stone obtained from this spot, which als~ furnished the material for Blenheim Palace, and for the inside of St. Paul's Cathedral. The upper part of the Great Oolite is in Oxfordshire a thickbedded white limestone, compact or marly, and about 20 oJ:· 30 feet in thickness. Entering the county near W estwell it passes by Burford and Wychwood Forest and spreads out into. a flat plateau on which stand Ditchley Park, Kiddington, W ootton, &c. Crossing into Cherwell the outcrop is nanrowed by that stream; good sections are exposed in the qua.rries at Enslow Bridge, where bones of saurians, especially Tele~ saurus, are not uncommon ; thence it passes northwards by Stoke Lyne, Cottisford, and Mixbury. The total thickness of the Great Oolite beds in this district is about 200 feet~, Fossils are numerous, about I50 species being recorded, thick beds of the shell known as Terebratula uw:cillata b~ing frequently exposed in quarries, as at Enslow Bridge.

10 OXFORDSHIRE. [KELLY'S Forest .if'Im·ble.-Tbis term is applied to the bard tlaggy THE CRETACEOUS FomrATION.-Of the Lower Greemana limestones, much ripple-marked and false-bedded, whicll a.·considerable patch extends from Culham to Burcott, and ~ompose the larger portion of Wychwood Forest. They are thence north to N unBham Courtenay and east to Chiselhamp· ~uarried for wall building and flags, and are often composed ton; it is here covered by the ov.erlap of the Gault, but re- -<lf broken oyster shells cemented together hy carbonate of appears at Great Haseley and .Albury. Outliers cap Shotlime. This formation is very fragmentary and occupies over Hill. These beds are variegated sands containing much more ground as outliers than along the outcrop; in the siliceous iron oYe towards the. top and about So feet thick. lorest it is 25 feet thick. In the large outlier at .l3lenheim Freshwater shells, as Unio and Paludina, occur here. Park it has become reduced to 15 feet, and then south of Tlte Gault is a pale blue clay about 200 feet thick. We "Tackley seems to die out altogether. It again appears, how- can trace it as a level tract on the left bank of the Thames at .ever, on the left bank of the Cherwell, opposite Enslow Bridge; Dorchester and War borough, and past Studbampton, Chal· here it is clayey and is worked for brick-making. .At ~lid.- grove, Rycote, Tetswortb, and Sydenllam, the outcrop being dleton Stoney and Bucknell the Forest Marble can also be from 1~ to 4 miles wide; it is dug for brick and tile making. recognized, but then thins away rapidly; it forms a poor soiL Upper Grwisaral.-'fhis overhes the Ga1:lt, and forms a Co1·nbrash.-This is a rubbly cream-coloured or brown band about a mile wide from Crowmarsh and Behsington to band of limestone about 10 or 15 feet thick, which is as con- Cuxham, South Weston, Cbinnor and Henton; the lower part stant in its occurrence as the Forest Marble is inconstant.. is whitish with dark clayey greensand above. ·From the village of Broughton Poggs in the south-west we • The Chal~.:.:_'fhe junction of the Lower. Chalk ~rith the ·Can trace it by Broad well and Kencott to N orton Bridge, (xreens~nd ts well. marked by a !me ~f sprmgs, whtch have where there are good sections. Passing round Witney the 1 Jetermm~~ the Sites of numerous VIllages, as Mong~well, ·outcrop narrows from abo,'e a mile to about 200 yards or so. Pyrton, Shuburn, Lewknor, .Asto~ Rowa.nt, Crowel,. Chmnor, ..At Bladon it broadens out to Woodstock and Shipton; here- and Bledlo~. The L_ower Chalk IS a whit~ earthyl!mesto~e, a bouts the Corn brash is very fossiliferous. From Middleton almost destttute of flmts: the. Chalk R?ck IS the term applied Stoney to Bicester this limestone forms a broad plateau to~ hard b.and at the top '!hiCh constitutes the crest of the more than two miles wide, and then from Fringford and Chiltern Hills. Beyond this, to the ea~tl as .far as the county Coddington it circles round to Buckingham: it forms a extends, we ha~e the Upper Chalk With fimts. There are •• brashy" loose soil of a reddish-brown hue, and well adapted some good sectiOns near Great Mar~ow. • for the growth of wheat. A curious row of inliers occur at TERTIARY PERIOD.-A few outlymg fragm~nts of.EocENE Jslip, Charlton, and Blackthorn Hill; these are dome-shaped age are found scattered over the chalk do~n~, provmg that masses, rising out of the dull plain of Oxford Clay, and it 1s t~ey <;mce covered the!ll all over. .At. Ilmfield Heath and worth noticing how they have all been seized upon as sites Emmir Green the. vestiges. of the Readzng Beds _covet more for villages. Avicula echinata is a common fossil. than a square mt!e! and m .the latter J.:!ac~ a ht~le.London Tlte Oxford Clay.-The clunch, as William Smith called it, Clay IS to be ~een m the bnckrard. Similar outhers are .is a very thick blue clay which weathers yellow at the sur- found on Turvllle Common, Mmdengrove Common, Nettle· face, and co1'ers a broad tract of country, the scenery of bed, Wood cot C?mmon &c. These are.mostlr sandy, but at which is remaYkably dull and uninteresting. Entei'ing near Nettle bed there IS abo~t 40 fee~ of J5feemsh-whitesandy clay, Lechlade it forms all the district between Bampton, Duck- verr valuable for makmg dram-p1pes &c. . . lington Church Hand borough and Bletchin()'ton on the north 'I HE DRIFT.-The south-west of Oxfordshire IS tolerably .aud th~ Thames on the south. Then ext~din()' from Kid~ free from those surface masses of clay and sand, which in1.iagton t? Oxford we can follow it due nortb-r~st over the terfere greatly in the ;northern and, eastern divi~ions with dreary ground of Ot 'Moor, past Launton and Piddington. the work of the g~o~ogtcal surv.eyor .. In gravel-ptts we see 'Tllere are some outliers on Wychwood Forest and one at that the dr~ft, !is 1t IS te~~ed, 1s maiply composed ?f frag- .Combe: at Oxford it is 6oo feet thick. Sections are rare ments of LtassJC and Ooht1c rocks, broken up and m1xed to. and fossils scarce. Near Bicester it is dug f!Jr bricks. get her, pro~abl~ b~ the ac~ion of glaciers or floating icebe!gs. <lryplu£a dilatata is a characteristic fossil. Everywhere Through this debns,. whiCh partly filled up the anCient the Oxford Clay forms a cold stiff land, difficult to cultivate I valleys, t~e present riVers have often cut then way, and the and usually in pasture. I present nver-gravels are usually composed of re-assorted C l R Th " " · 1 . d b k t drift pebbles. ora ag.-:- .e term rag lS app Ie Y wor men ° Alluvial Deposits.-The rivers have also deposited much any stone which IS largely co.rr:posed of shells, corals ·'ll:c. • mud, or alluvium, on either side of their banks, forming the bound togetbherboyda cfalcareSo-sidhceodus or hothTerhcement. ~e rich green water-meadows of the Thames and the Cherwell. can trace sue e s ro!? an for -an-t e- ames passmg These river accumulations are from a mile to a mile and a east of Cowley ~o Head~ngton, ~lsfie.ld, Stanton St. J?hn~ half broad in the neighbourhood of Oxford. The Windrnsh and th~nce to "\\ heatley 'from this pomt the sands and ltme- has also formed similar beds, aveYaging three-quarters of a stone.dte out a:nd ap~ear to be replaced by be~s of clay~ ~t mile wide, from Witney to its j~nction with the Isis. ~~admgto~ Hill, _near Oxford, there are lar.,e quarries ~n PREHISTORIC MAN.-Implements fashioned out of stone t Is C?ra:h_n~ Oohte, and the stone has been mucl_l used m are not oJ unfrequent occurrence; they are met with in the th.at City, It IS not very durable, howe~er, and reqmres to be surface soil or in ancient interments or-encampments. Flint laid as m the quarry, so t~at the beddmg planes are not ex- arrow-heads have been found at Stanlake .Abingdon and by po~ed.; Wadham College 1~ perhaps the best exampl_e of a Colonel Lane Fox in ar old Parthwor:U. ~ Callow Hill. A tmildmg const~uc~ed of this stone. . The lower dtviS!on, or stone celt or axe-head found at Eynsham is in the collection Calcareous Grtt, IS about 7° feet thiCk, and _the upper part, of Mr. John Evans; he describes it as a short thick specimen, .vr Coral Ra~ proyey,~bout 50 fee:; the ~atter lS largely formed ~ inches long, which is also the length of a similar specimen .of corals, Tltecmrrmlw and Isast1 ea bemg very nmnerous. from .Abin!!don; they are both polished, and the latter has a Kimmeridge Clay.-This is a very stiff unctuous shaly clay, facet on the edge, having been reground to sharpen it. -with occasional bands of limestone nodules. It IS well seen .Another, made of green stone, is recorded from Stanlake. A an the brick-pits near Headington, and its thickness in Ox- celt is said to have been found with some Roman remains at lfordshire is about 1oofeet; it forms the vales of pasture land Alchester, but the association was probably accidental. These bet we en Sandford, Toot Baldon, Cuddesdon, and ·w aterperry stone axes o-r adzes, or chisels, seem to have been set in Crystals of selenite, called "fossil water" by the workmen, sockets, which, howe,·er, are rarely met with. One such ;aye of frequent occurrence. Ost1·ea deltoidea is very common. socket or handle formed of the horns of the red deer is said ..A.t Cumnor Hurst, near Oxford, the bones of a large extinct to have been found with human remains and pottery species of reptile, called the Iguanodon, were found in 1879 of an early character at Cockshott Hill, in Wychwood Forest. in a sandy layer near the top of the Kimmeridge clay. .A hammer-stone formed of a quartzite pebble was obtained by Portland Stone and Sand.-The lower part is formed of Colonel Lane Fox within an ancient earthwork at Dorchester, brownish sands which contain masses of grit of strange and a sharpening or grinding stone was found at Burcott in forms, such as those seen on the old London road in going the same parish in 1835• together with a stone celt. Flint from Oxford up Shoto,-er Hill. These beds make no great flakes or knives are abundant on Callow Hill, and one, of which ~how in Oxfordshire, although they are from so to go feet the edges were serrated, so as to act as a saw, was found at thick," being frequently concealed by the overlap of the Brighthampton. From Callow Hill a flint scraper for dressing tCretaceous series. The Portland Stone is a white limestone, hides is also to be mentioned, and a fragment of a spear-head which is worked at Garsington. At Haseley the stone is from Dorchester Dykes. A diligent look-out would lead. to about 8 feet thick. Similar beds occur at Cuddesden, Great many more discoveries of these old stone tools, which are the -and Little Milton, and east of Thame. only remaining traces of savage tribes who inhabited this Purbeck Beds, 4 feet thick, are said to occur on Shotover j country in pre-historic times. Bill. W.J.a •

' DIRECTORY .J OXFORDSHIRE. ADDERBURY. 11 ADDERBURY is a parish wb_~ch includes the townships and villages of East and ·west Adderbury and the chapelry of Milton, and is in the Northern division of the county, Bloxham hundred, Ban bury and Bloxham petty sessional division, Banbury union and county court district, rural deanery of Deddington and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The Oxford canal pa~ses the _parish on the east; it is separated from Northamptonshire on the east by the Cherwell. 'l'he area of the parish is 6,380 acres; the population in 1881 was 1,423. EAST ADDERBURY is on the Sorbrook, a tributary of th~ river Cherwell ii.:ad on the road from Oxford to Eanbury, with a station on the Banbury, Chipping Norton and Cheltenham section of the Great Western :railway, 3 miles north-west from Aynho station on the Oxford and Birmingham branch of the same line, 3! miles south-by-east from Banbury, 17~ north from Oxford and 83 from London. The church of St. :Mary, which stands on elevated ground, is an edifice of various dates, consisting of chancel, with vestry, elere'ltoried nave of four bays, aisles, north and south porches and .a western tower with spire and pinnacles, containing a •Clock and 8 bells: the chancel, a work of the Perpendicular period, was built by William of Wykeham, who, in 1385, gave this vicarage to New College, Oxford, of which he was the founder ; his bust and armorial bearings, carved in stone, appear on the external wall over the east window as well as on the woodwork of the roof: Qn the north side of the chancel is the original vestry, with a room over it, and an oriel window: the nave has ·a fine timber roof and Decorated stone porches: there is a brass of a man in armour wearing a collar, and his wife, c. qfu; another to Jane, wife of George Smythe, 1508, and an inscription on brass to Roger Wells, merchant, and his wives J oan and Agnes : in the chancel is buried Sir George Cobb, 3rd bart. the last lineal representative of an ancient familv once resident here, who • was accidently drowned 29 March, 1762, at the seat of John Blagrave esq. near Reading, aged go; in the chancel was also buried Alice (Wild), wife of William Cobb esq. who died 23 Oct. 1627, and Sir William Cobb kt. interred here 16 March, 1658: there is here also a monument to William Oldys D.D. vicar here from 1627, shot by soldiers of the Padiamentary army during the Civil war in 1645: the stained east window was erected by a bequest of the Rev. Charles Alcock M.A. vicar from 1836: the chancel was restored in 1834 unde:..'" the direction of Mr. Buckler, architect, of Oxford, and in 1886 the church was thoroughly restored and reseated with oak benches, at ;a cost of [2,907: there are soo sittings. In the churchyard is a monument to William Beaw D.D. sometime :major of a regiment of horse in the army of Chas. I. afterwards a volunteer in the Swedish army in the war with Poland during his exile, vicar of Adderbury I66I79• and Bishop of Llandaff I679-17o6. The register dates from the year 1598. The living is a vicarage with the chapelry of Milton anne:s.ed, joint net yearly value, arising from 398 acres of glebe, £383, with resi- -dence, iu the gift of New College, Oxford, and held since 1874 by the Rev. Henry John Gepp M.A. late fellow of ·that college and surrogate. The W esleyan chapel, ~rected in 1893, will seat 200 persons. The Feoffees' or 'Town Lands Charity belonging to East and West Adderbury and Milton, now administered under a scheme of the Charity Commissioners framed in 1871, produces about £260 a year, of which one-fifth is a~signed to church purposes; one-fifth to education; one-fifth to hospital or infirmary or sick clubs ; one-fifth te local friendly institutions; and one-fifth to the poor. Henry Wilmot esq. son of Sir Charles Wilmot, Ist Viscount Athlone, was created Lord Wilmot of Adderbury by King Charles I. 29 June, 1643, and Earl of Rochester bf Charles II. 13 Dec. 1652; he was the father of Henry Wilmot, the witty but profligate Earl of Rochester, ranger of Woodstock park, where he died July 26, I68o. In the parish are iron stone quarries, some of which are worked by the Hook Norton Ir-on Stone Partnership Limited, whose offices are in London, and others by Sir Alfred Hickman M.P. of Spring Vale Furnaces, Wolverhampton. Cotefield is the residence of the Rev. Henry Cunliffe M.A. The old manor house was built by one of the Bustard family. George Bliss esq. is lord of the manor and holds an annual court leet. The principal landowners are New College, Oxford, Maj. James W. Larnach, T. P. Golby, Edward Railton es.qrs. and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The soil is red loam; subsoil, clay and rock. The crops are wheat, barley, oats, beans, swedes and potatoes. The area is 2,022 aC'res and 36 of water; rateable value, £5,451; the population in 1891 of East Adderbury was 846. · Sexton, John Faulkner. Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity & Insurance Office, Adderbury East.-Charles Keyte, sub-postmaster. Letters through Banbury arrive at 7.20 & II.4o a.m. & 4.20 p.m.; dispatched at 9 a.m. 4.50 & 6.30 p.m Fire Engine House, Mill lane, Robert Eeasley, captain; William Dale, lieut. & IO firemen National School (boys), for 200 children; average attendance, boys, 67 ; girls, 70; infants, 57 ; Harry Upstone, master: (girls), Mrs. Maria Upstone, mistress; Miss Maud Coward, infants' mistress Railway Station, Henry Brown, station master Carriers to & from Banbury.-Richard Plackett, to ' Coach & Horses,' & George Stanton, to 'Leather Bottle,' daily; John Weston, to & from Oxford to Eanbury, mon. & thurs. calling at the Red Lion hotel WEST ADDERBURY township is separated from East Adderbury by the Sorbrook. Here is a Congregational chapel and a Meeting House for the Society of Friends. The principal landowners are Holford Cotton Risley esq. of Deddington, James Walker Larnach and Thomas Perry esqrs. The area is r,r59 acres; rateable value, £2,688; the population in 1891 was 331. Wall Letter Box, West Adderbury, cleared at 6 p.m. daily; sundays, 4.20 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at East Adderbury MILTON is a hamlet one mile west from East Adderbur·y. The church or chapel of ease, erected in 1856, is a building of stone. consisting of chancel, nave and a small central tower containing 2 bells and will seat about Ioo persons : service is conducted on Sundays by the clergy of Adderbury. The area is 77oa. or. 9P·; rateable value, £1,374; the population in r891 was 136. Letters through Banbury arrive at 9 a.m. Wall Letter Box cleared at 3.40 p.m. East Adderbury & Bloxham are the nearest money order & telegraph offices EAST ADDERBURY. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. -:Bickwood Miss, White house · Summerton Miss ~Vyatt CTiaude Wilmot Emmet John William M.R.C.S.Eng .• L.R.C.P.Lond. surgeon & physician, see Green & Emmet -:Bradford Mrs ·Buck Mrs 'Cumbers Ml's -cunliffe Rev. Henry M.A. Cotefield Emmet John William 'Ffrench Nicholas G. The Larches -Gardner Thomas 'Golby Thomas P. The Lawn 'Bill-D'Oiley John La.rnach James Walker, Adderbury house & Junior Carlton & Windham clubs & Turf club, London W 'Lawrence John Martin Mrs. The Green ·Morris MDs Norman Mrs ""Roberts Miss, lvanhoe house Robertson J ames Sprent, Hill house "Sefton (The) Dowager Countess of, Vicarage house Stilgoe Nathaniel, The Green ·Summerton Jesse COMMERCIAL. Banbury Co-operative Industrial Society Limited (branch) (William Arthur Tyrrell, manager) Bannell Obed, butcher Beasley Robert, carpenter & beer retlr Bennett William, shopkeeper Dlackwell ·wmiam, insuranc~ agent Blake Thomas Henry, Red Lion Commercial Hotel & Cyclist headquarters, wine & spirit merchant & surveyor. See advert Borton Frederick, coaJ merchant, Nellbridge wharf Bryant Charles, insurance agent Butler Henry, grocer Butler Sarah (Mrs.), beer retailer & butcher Cooper Henry, baker Dale William, h<mse decorator Dispensary (George Sydney Groon L.R.C.P.Lond. & John William Emmet L.R.C.P.Lond. med.officers) Fletcher Wm. farmer, N ell bridge frm Gardner Richard, farmer Green & Emmet, surgeons & physcns Hone Henry, brewer & fly proprietor Hone J a son, farmer Hone John, but{!her Keyte Chades, blacksmith, Post o:ffioo Merry William, shopkeeper Page John Elkington,farmer, Fleet fro Pickard Robert, cowkeeper Plackett Richard Augustus, carrier &i coal merchant Pritchard John Butler, coal merchant & farmer Railton Edward, farmer & landowner Robertson Jas. Sprent M.R.C.S.Eng. &c. surgeon & medical officer & public vaccinator, Bloxham district, Banbury uniO'Il, Hill house Rogers. Edward, Plough P.H . Rogers James, Red Lion P.H. brick· maker & coal merchant, Twyford Savage Frederick, harness maker

11 .ADDERSt1BY, OXFORDSHIRE. Slade Jsph.house decorator & slaterer WEST ADDERBURY. Spencer ·wm. Hubert, cabin.et maker Spencer Thirza. (Mrs.),Coach & Horses PRIVATE RESIDENTS. P.H. & cabinet maker Koomfield Richard Stanton Goorge, carrier & coal dealr Crowe Mrs Stilgoo NathanielPage (Mrs.), farmer, Dale John Rogers Manor farm Elston John Edward Taylor James, farmer, Park farm Fisher James Todd Benjamin, chemist & grocer Forbes Mrs Townsend John, stone mason Gepp Rev. Henry John M. A. (vicar Townsend William, tailor & surrogate), Yicarage Tustain John, bailiff to George Bliss Hawkes 1vlrs esq. & assistant overseer for East Hicks Mrs &i West Adderbury Hone John Walford Thomas Henry, farmer Lamb Miss Wallin John Henry, miller (water) Litchfield Charles [KELLY'& Col em an J oseph, blacksmith Dale John Rogers, farmer Gardner George, shoe maker Hone William, farmer Jackman Sarah (Mrs.), laundress Moss Thomas, shoe maker Richards Gerald, carpenter Sears Martha (Mrs.), shopkeeper Slaney Wiiliam Henry, White Hart P.H. & butcher Stilgoe Hugh William, farmer, TheGround·s ·waring John, beer retailer Warren Thos. Dog & Partridge P.H :MILTON. Walton William, Wheatsheaf P.H. & :\'orris George Coy Mrs stone mason Norris The Misse.s Bennett George, shoe maker Ward Gordon W. organist Polone Edwin Blake Herbert, farmer Webb John, carpenter Ratley \Villiam Goodwin John, farmer 'White Septimus P. farmer, Sydenham Smith Jame·s Hanson lVilliam, farmer Wilkins Misses (The) Elizabeth & COMMERCIAL. Smith Charles Wm. Black Boy P.H Florence, bakers Bennett \Villiam Bannard, farmer Turner J uhn, farmer ADWELL is a village and parish, 3 miles north-west The register dates from the year I539· The living is a from Aston Rowant station, on the Princes Risborough rectory, with South "'\Veston annexed, average tithe rentand Watlington branch of the Great Western railway, charge £87, joint net yearly value £232, with 50 acre& 4~ north-east from Watlington and 5 south from Thame, of glebe, in the gift of Mrs. Birch-Reynardson, and held. in the Southern division of the county, hundred of since 1866 by the Rev. Henry Leighton Fanshawe M.A._ Lewknor, petty sessional division of Watlington, union late fellow of New College, Oxford, who resides at South and county court district of 'l'hame, rural deanery of Weston. Adwell House, the seat of Mrs. Henry Birch- .Aston and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The Reynardson, who is lady of the manor and sole landchurch of St. Mary is a building of flint, with stone owner, stands close to the church and is surrounded by. dressings, in mixed styles, consisting of chancel and handsome pleasure grounds. 'The soil is clay; subsoil, nave, south porch and a western turret with spire con- rag. The chief crops are wheat, oats, beans and barley. taining 2 bells: the doorway js 1'\orman, and the win- The area is 433a. 3r. I7P·; rateable value, £654; the· dows in the Transitional style from Early English to population in I8gr was 68. Decorated: in the nave wall is the effigy of a knight in Sexton, Joseph Culley. chain mail carrying a heart in his hand: there are three Letters through Tetsworth, which is the nearest money stained windows, and several marble tablets to the Webb order & telegraph office, arrive at 7.30 a.m. & I p.m and Newell families, as well as a brass to the late Henry Nearest ·wan Letter Box at Postcombe, cleared at 7·5 Birch-Reynardson esq. d. 5 Feb. 1884: the church was p.m completely restored in 1865, and affords no sittings. The children of this village attend the school at Lewkno:r> Birch-Reynardson Mrs. Henry, .Adwell/Budd James, head gardener to Mrs.,Hall Thomas, farm bailiff to Mrs~ hou_se Henry Birch-Reynardson Henry Birch-Reynardson ALBURY is a parish, separated from Bucks by the , lege, Lampeter. The Earl of .Abingdon is lord of th& ri,er Thame and on the main road from 'l'hame to Ox- manor and sole landowner. The soil is clay; subsoil, ford, i mile east from Tiddington station in this parish, gravel. The chief crops are whealt, oats, barley and beanSI;. on the Oxford, Princes Risborough and Maidenhead the area of Albury, 66o acres, and Tiddington 447 acres section of the Great Western railway, 4 miles west from is 1,107 acres; rateable value, Albury, £1,103; TidtlingThame and 9 east from Oxford, in the Southern division ton, £858; the population in 1891 was 203, in the followof the county, hundred and petty sessional division of ing proportions, viz. Albury 53, Tiddington 150. Bullingdon, union and county court district of Thame, Tiddington is a township of this parish with a station rural deanery of Cuddesdon and diocese and arch- on the Maidenhead, Wycombe and Oxford section of thedeaconry of Oxford. The church of St. Helen is a Great Western railway. Tiddington House is the seat building of stone, in the Perpendicular style, erected of Mrs. Bennett. from designs by the late Mr. Thomas Rickman, architect, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and a Parish Clerk, James Beckett. low western tower containing 2 bells: the ancient font, Post Office, Tiddington, James Brooks, sub-postmastera Norman work of irregular cylindrical form, is curiously Letters from Oxford arrive at 9 ·a.m.; dispatched at carved: a vestry was added in 1892, and the interior of 5-IS p.m. Sunday, arrive at 9 a.m.; dispatched 9.50 the church has been restored at a cost of £soo: there a.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid~ are 164 sittings. The register dates from the year 1653 Great Milton is the nearest money order & telegraph. and relates to Holton and Waterperry as well as Albury. office The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £247, School (mixed), erected in 1873 by the voluntary connet yearly value £2oo, with residence and 25 acres of tributions of the ratepayers, for 40 children; average glebe, in the gift of the Earl of Abingdon, and held since attendance, 27; Miss Elizabeth Harris, mistress 1887 by the Rev. Henry Jones B.D. of St. David's Col- Railway Station, Tiddington, Harry Ward, station mstr .ALilURY. Bennett Geo. William, Tiddington ho Green Joseph Round, coal merchant-, Bushnell Mrs Railway station Jone.s Rev. Henry B.D. Rectory Bull Robert, farmer Fuller James, market gardener Way William, farmer & churchwardn TIDDINGTON. Ilennett Mrs. Tiddington house Bushnell Miss Goodenough Sarah Ann (Mis,s), Thre& COMMERCIAL. Beckett James, market gardener Brooks Jas. blacksmith, Post office Browns ell Henrietta (Mrs.), farmer Freeman Jas. farmer, Brimpton farm Pigeons P.H Ilbery Richard, carpenter to Hon. F~ Bertie Malin William, farmer Steele Edith Maria (Mrs.), Fox P.H Ward Richard, shopkeeper ALKERTON is a parish and village on the borders taining 4 bells: the cornice of the parapet is elaboratelyof Warwickshire, 6 miles west-north-west from Banbury sculptured with animals and figures, supposed to restation on the Great Western railway, and 29 nortb- present the life of the Black Prince: the chancel was 'West from Oxford, in the Northern division of the rebuilt early in the 17th century, and completely recounty, hundred of Bloxham, Banbury and Bloxham stored in I88g-go, at a cost of £1,467: the south arcade· petty sessional division, union and county court district is Transition Norman: the south porch and doorway of Ilanbury, rural deanery of Deddington and arch- Early English with a stoup: in the south aisle is ail' deaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. effigy of a knight in armour of about the 12th century, Michael, which stands upon a considerable eminence, is and on the north side a tablet to the wife of thean edifice of stone, principally in the Early English anri minister, I653: there are 100 sittings. The register Decorated styles, and consists of chancel, clerestoried dates from the year I544· The living is a rectory, net nave, south aisle, south porch and an embattled central yearly value £II6, including 103 acres of glebe with tower of the Early English and Decorated periods, con- residence, in the gift of the Earl of Jersey, and held

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. .A.MBROSDEN. 13 since r87o by the Rev. Benjamin John Smith l\LA. of Oriel College, Oxford. The principal landowners are the Earl of Jersey P.C., G.C.~I.G. who is lord of the manor, Thomas P. Gulby esq. of .Adderbury, and Patrick "\'Villiam MacGreal esq. The soil is light on a red sandstone. The crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots; the area is 7o4a. Ir. 4P· ; rateable value, £1,042; the population in 1891 was 119. Parish Clerk, .Tonathan Boote. Letters through Banbury arrive at 8 a.m. Tysoe is the nearest money order office & Wroxton the nearest telegraph office. Wall Letter Box cleared at 4.50 p.m National School, erected in r87r, for 70 children; average attendance, 17; Miss Clara Fisher, mistress :MacG:real Patrick Wm. The Cottage Miller Mrs Boote Jonathan, cooper & parish c1erk Gregory Richard, farmer Burbridge James, farmer Miller Thomas, farmer Smith Rev. Benjn. Jn. M.A. Rectory Bazley John, New inn Fox Geo. farmer, Alkert{)n Fields fm Perkins Daniel, higgler Gentl~ Cornelius, hawker IThornwn Thos. sieve & basket maker ALVESCOTT is a parish and village, on a brook -which runs through Bourton and Bampton into the Thames, with a station on the Witney and Fairford branch of the Great Western railway, 3 miles north-west from Bampton, B! south-west from Witney and 8r by rail from London, in the Mid division of the county, hundred of Bampton, petty sessional division of Bamp- :ton 1Vest, union and county court district of 1Yitney, rural deanery of 1Yitney and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church (dedication uncertain) is an ancient building of stone in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, transepts, north and south -chapels and a low embattled western tower of Perpendicular date, containing 5 bells: the chancel is modern: the north chapel Early English: the south chapel Perpendicular: the font is Early English: the east window is a memorial to the late Rev. Arthur Neate B.A. rector, of Alvescott with Shilton, I829-70, and there are others to the late C. Neate and Miss Neate and to Miss Nalder: in the south transept is a brass, in excellent preservation, to Alice Malorye, 1579: the church was thoroughly restored in 1873 and affords 205 sittings. The register -dates from the year I663. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £27, net yearly value £220, including 300 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift (if and held since 1878 by the Rev. Waiter Neate M.A. of New College, Oxford. Here is a chapel for Particular Baptists. The Reading room, previously a Primitive Methodist chapel, was opened in 1886. The charities for distribution in fuel represent a yearly value of £14 ss. 2d. Rebecca, the wife of Goddard Carter esq. left in 1725 £5 w apprentice poor children, and her husband bequeathed £5 yearly to the school. Jane Ilray, of Great Barrington, left in 1715 £1 annually, to be laid out at Christmas by the lord of the manor, the minister and the overseers of the poor for the time being, to buy garments for poor people not in receipt of parochial relief. Thomasine Mills and Mrs. Mary Kirby, in 1784 jointly left £5o stock in the £3 per Cent. Consols, the interest to be given away yearly in bread the Sunday before Christmas. Catherine Winkworth's charity of £wo is invested in the £2l per Cent. Consols, the interest of which is applied· to the repair of her tomb and the churchyard; the surplus, if any, to be distributed amongst the widows and widowers of the parish. 'l'he trustees of the late Rev. Arthur Neate B.A. who are lords of the manor, and l\Ir. J. Nalder are the principal landowners. The soil is stone brash and gravel; subsoil, the same. The chief crops are the usual cereals and roots. The area is 1,995 acres; rateable value, [2,2oo; the population in 1891 was 390. Parish Clerk, Thomas Henry Edmonds. Post Office (Sub-Office. Letters should have S. 0. Ox on added).--John Compton, sub-postmaster. Letters are delivered (sundays included) at 7.20 a.m.; dispatched at 7.15 p.m.; sumlays, 9·55 a.m. London day mail (via Oxford) arrives at r.3o p.m. ; dispatched 12.30 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Filkins ; Bampton is the nearest telegraph office. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid 'Vall Letter Box, Railway station, 7.30 p.m. week days only Parochial School (mixed), erected in 186g, for go children; average attendance, 62; it has an endowment of £5 yearly from Carter's charity, mentioned above; Miss Mary Ann Targett, mistress Railway Station, .Arthur Sidney Smith, station master PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Pratt Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer Reading Room (Rev. Waiter Neate .Alien Charles Clapton James, farmer ~I.A. secretary) Austin Mrs. Mill lane Collett John, Red Lion P.H. & shpkpr Smith Arthur Sidney, station master, Bryan Mrs Compton John, tailor, Post office Elm cottage Canoellor George 1V. Alvescott ho Edmonds Thomas Henry, farmer Tanner Edmnd•. miller (wind), AlvesJames Edward James Ernest, farmer cott mill Neate Rev. Wait-er M.A. "Rect<Jry Moss Richard, beer retailer Taylor David, wheelwright & carpntr Titcomb William, farmer, Kenn's frm Widdowson .Albert, farmer, Baze· J>ole Rev. Edward A. curate of Black Nalder John, farmer & landowner Barton Oakey Elizabeth (Mrs.), .shopkeeper land farm Yeatman Thomas, blacksmith Simpwn Mrs. Ben venue 1 Oakey Fredk. Plough P.H. & farmer Younghusband Arthur J. Cedar lodge Oakey James, builder AMBROSDEN is a large parish and village, 3 miles south-east from Bicester station on the Bletchley and Banbury branch of the London and North Western railway and I2 north-east from Oxford, in the Mid division .of the county, hundred of Bullingdon, petty sessional division of Ploughley, union and county court district ef Bicester, rural deanery of Bicester and archdeaconry .and diocese of Oxford. The name is supposed to be -derived from Ambrosius Aurelius, who encamped here .during the siege of Alcester by the Saxons. A feeder of the Ray flows through. The church of St. Mary the Virgin, an ancient edifice of stone, chiefly in the Early Decorated style, and supposed to have been built in the Teign of Edward IL c<msists of chancel, clerestoried nave -of four bays, south aisle with porch and an embattled western tower containing a clock and 6 fine-toned bells : the chancel is Perpendicular and retains a piscina: the nave is divided from its aisle by an arcade of four Decorated arches on octagonal columns: the exterior wall of the aisle is finished with a good open trefoiled parapet and cornice of heads and ball flowers, both continued round the porch ; the rood~loft stairs remain and there is a Norman doorway on the north side: the tower is late Early English: in the chancel is a memorial to John Stubbinge D.D. vicar, 1635-55, who, in 1638, built the vicarage house, at a cost of £8oo; this stone was placed to his memory by Dr. White Kennett, who -succeeded to the vicarage in r685 and was Bishop of Peterborough, 1718-z8 : the church has been completely restored from funds derived from an ancient devise by an unkn<Jwn donor, of 25 acres of land, producing £7o yearly; it has been reseated with open benches, and the chancel restored by the lay rector and subscriptions, the whole cost amounting to £I,soc., under the direction of )Ir. Charles N. Beazley, architect, of London: there are 350 sittings, 8o being free: the· churchyard, which has been enlarged with ground given by the late Sir Edward Henry Page Turner bart. (d. 1874), contains the remains of a cross, on an octagonal base. The register dates from the year J6II. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value, arising from tithe rent-charge and 186 acres of glebe, £:qo, with residence, in the gift of the trustees of the late Mrs. Page-Fryer, and held since 1884 by the Rev. Charles Eayfield, of Cumbrae College, N.B. Ambrosden Park was formerly of great extent and contained a noble mansion, erected by Sir William Glynne, rst hart. (d. 16go ), towards the end of the 17th century; few traces of it now remain; in 1728 it was purchased by Sir Edward Turner, rst bart. (d. 19 June, 1735), and for some time continued to be the seat of that family. The trustees of the late Sir Edward Henry Page Turner hart. (d. 1874) are lords of the manor and principal landowners. The soil is stone brash and clay ; subsoil, clay and stone. The land is chiefly pasture. The area of the entire- parish is 4,863 acres; rateable value, £4,823; .Ambrosden, exclusive of hamlets, £873 ; the population in r891 of the entire parish was 653 ; Ambrosden, exclusive of hamlets, 168. Post Office.-Mrs. Elizabeth Sarah Taylor, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive through Bicester at 7.20 a.m. & dispatched 5.IO p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Bicester

14 AMBROSDEN • OXFORDSHIRE. [ KELLY'S .ARNCOTT, UPPER and LOWER, or Over and Nether, form a hamlet to .Ambrosden, Upper .A.rncott being one mile and Lower .A.rncott half a mile south of that place and near the Bucks border. Here is a small \Veslevan • chapel. .A. Mission room, built by the. Rev. Charles Edward Bagshawe, vicar, 1866-84, is used also as a girls' and infant school, under the management of the .A.mbrosden School Board. The area is 2,010 acres ; the population m 1891 was 202. Wall Letter Box cleared at 4.ro p.m. Letters through Bicester arrive 9.30 a.m BLACKTHORN is also a hamlet, distant from Ambrosden a mile east. Here is a small Congregational chapel. The Mission room here, built by the Rev. C. E. Bagshawe, vicar, 1866-84, is used also as a girls' and infant school, under the management of the .A.mbrosden School Board. The area is 2,280 acres ; rateable value, [2,513; the population in r8gr was 283. Parish Clerk, John Taylor. Wall Letter Box cleared at 4·45 p.m. Letters arriv& through Bicester by foot messenger at 9 a.m. Ths. nearest money order & telegraph office is at Bicester A. School Board of 5 members was formed, rst Feb. 1873,. for the united district of Ambrosden, .A.rncott & BlackthDrn; Edward Harper, chairman & hon. clerk to th.eboaJ'dJ; John .A.bbott, attendance officer Board Schools. Am brosden, built in 1876, for go children; the averageattendance is 53; Thomas Lawrence, master .A.rn.cott (girls & infants), for 45 children; average at-- tendance, 27; Miss S. J. V. Dodds, mistress Blackthorn (girls & infants), for 40 children; a.verag& attendance, 26; Mrs. Shaw, mistress Carrier.-From Blackthorn to Bicester, Charles Heritage,. tues. & fri .A.~illROSDEN. Bayfie:d Rev. Charles, Vicarage Ab bott William, farmer Eldridge George, carpenter Eldridge Thomas, shopkeeper Harper Edward, farmer & clerk the Scho()l Board to Gray William, brick maker Green George, Rose & Crown P .H Sansome Richard, farmer Griffin Stephen, farmer Templar John, miller (wind) LOWER .A.RNCOTT. Hepworth Arthur, Essex farm Heritage Charles, beer retailer Herring John, baker Fund ell J ames, Turners' Arms P. H Hawes William baker Deeley Jabez, farmer Eickman Charles Edward, farmer Deeley Jabez, jun. farmer Jcnes Charles, farmer J ones J ames, farmer Markham J oseph, blacksmith & ma- Fl_emons Alfred Edward, grocer chinist Kntland James, Plough P.H ,1 one'i John, farmer Leach John, carpenter & wheelwright: Smith William Thos. farmer, miller Watkins John, farmer Markham .Alfred, farmer, Folly farm Parker William, farmer (wind & steam) & coal merchant BLACKTHORN. Powell Alfred, farmer Shaw George, butcher UPPER ARNCOTT. Kirby .A.dam Smith Frank, farmer Cross Mrs. farmer Croxton Richard, farmer COMMERCIAL. Stanton William, blacksmith Winfield SamueJ, farmer Hawes Fred William, shopkeeper Croxton William, butcher Woodcock Albert, farmer yearly value, arising from tithe rent-charge, £217, with residence and 55 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Dnke of Marlborough, and held since 1873 by the Rev. GeorgeSandham Griffith M . .A.. of Clare College, Cambridge. In the parish are the foundatiDns of a castle, supposed tohave been built in the reign of King Stephen (II35-54)- The Duke of Marlborough is lord of the manor ; Capt. Sir Algernon Francis Peyton bart. of Swift's House, the trustees of the late Rev. Thomas Lowe and the rectorare the principal landed proprietors. The land about here is poor and principally limestone; subsoil, stone brash. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. Thearea is 1,469 acres; rl\teable. value, £1,295 ; the population in r8gr was 135. Parish Clerk, Frederick Harris. ARDLEY is a parish and village on the road from Oxford to Brackley, 7 miles from Brackley and 4 northwest from Bicester, 3 miles west from Somerton station on the Oxford and Ban bury section of the Great Western railway, in the Mid division of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of Ploughley, Bicester union and county court district, rural deanery of Bicester and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Mary is an edifice. of stone, consist~ng of chancel and nave and a western tower of the DecDrated period, with a saddle-back roof and containing 2 bells : the chancel is of the same date, but tl::Le nave was rebuilt in a very inferior style about q8g; the chancel has five windows, including the east window of three lights; the tracery of three of these is very good; in the north wall is a sepulchral arch, with shields of arms: the church was restored and beautified and the body of the church re- Post Office.-Thomas .A.ddison, sub-postmaster. Letters: seated at considerable expense in r86o, by Mrs. Anne through Bicester arrive at 8.30 a.m.; dispatched 4·35 Hind, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Hind M . .A.. rector, p.m.; sundays, 11 a.m. The nearest money order and subsequently of Culworth, Northants (d. 10 ·Jan. office is at Middleton Stoney & telegraph office at r815): there are 200 sittings. The register of baptisms Fritwell • dates from the year 1759, burials from 1761, marriages National School, built in 186r, for 6o children; average from April, 1758. The living is a rectory, average attendance, 21; Miss Jones, mistress Griffith Rev. George Sandham M . .A.. Forester John, district road surveyor Millington Bryan-Worsley, farmer, Ash Rectory Gibbard Ri>ehard, baker grove .A.dd1son Thomas, shpkpr. Post office Gibbard William, carpenter Wailer Charles, farmer Beasley Mark, farmer Maycock George, farmer Wardland John, Fox & Hounds P.H ASCOTT-UNDER-WYCHWOOD is a parish and village on the river Evenlode, with a station on the Oxford and Chipping Norton Junction branch of the Great Western railway and It miles east from Shipton station on the same line, 7 miles north-west from Witney and 5 south from Chipping Norton, in the Northern division of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of Chaddington, union and county court district of Chipping Norton, rural deanery of Chipping Norton and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of the Holy Trinity is an ancient edifice of stone, in the Norman and later styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, north aisle, south chapel, south porch and a western tower of the Transition period containing a clock and 5 bells : the chancel walls are Norman, but the east window is an insertion of the Decorated period : two small Norman windows remain on the north side of the chancel, and on the south side is a piscina and sedilia : the chancel arch is Decorated, but rude : the nave and north aisle are divided by an arcade of three semicircular Norman arches, supported on massive pillars: the south porch has a curious Norman inner doorway and quaint corbels support its roof: the font is Perpendicular : there are a few good oak benches with poppy-heads of the :fleur-de-lis form: the church affords 204 sittings. The register da.tes from the year 1569~ The living is a vicarage, average. tith.e rent-charge £Io, gross income £78, including 18 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1893 by the Rev. Charles Walford M . .A.. of St. John's College, Oxford. The Eaptist small chapel herewas built in 1803 and rebuilt in 1894· The poor's estateof 4a. or. 12p. with 21 cottages, produces about £7z yearly, formerly expended in apprenticing, and clothinggirls going out to service, but now £ro is allotted to theschool, the net remainder being distributed in fuel and clothing. Lord Churchill is lord of the manor and owns all the land with the exception of one farm of about 500 acres, the property of the Crown. A court leet is held at the "Churchill Arms" annually on Easter Tuesday. The soil is clay and stone brash ; subsoil, clay and rock. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans, oats and turnips. The area is 1,769 acres; ·rateable value, £3,052; th~ population in 1891 was 430. • Sexton, Alien Edginton. Post Office. John Morris, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Oxford 8.25 a.m. & 12.39 p.m. ; dispatched at 4·35 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Shipton-under-Wychwood; the telegraph office is at

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. NORTH AS'ION. 15 Ascott Railway station. PDstal orders are issued, but not paid from the poor's estate; John Du Bois, master; infants~ mistress, Miss Lilian Perkins National School (mixed), erected about 1833, rebuilt in Railway Stations. 1873 & enlarged in 1879, it will hold 120 children; aver- Ascott-William James Dance, station master age attendance, go; & is supported in part by £2o Shipton-Thomas Preece, station master Davis Joseph, The Grange Chaundy Osbert, farmer Jessop Jn. Thos. Churchill Arms P.H Perkins William Chaundy John, farmer Moss Leonard, shopkeeper Roberts Henry Cooper James, miller (water) Taylor Edward Obed, farm~r Townsend Mrs Dance William James, station master, Walsh Edwd. Hrbt. boot & shoe maker Walford Rev. Charles :M . .A. Vicarage Railway station & repairer COMMERCIAL. Gomm Maria (Mrs.), shopkeeper Webb Ernest, farmer Hambidge Robert, farmer Williams Ernest, farmer Aid en J oseph, shoeing & genl. smith Andrews Thomas, grocer Hill Jn. White Swan P.H. & whlwrght Young John, wheelwright Hyatt William, farmer ASTHALL is a village and parish on the river Windrush, 4 miles north from the Brampton station on the Oxford, Witney and Fairford branch of the Great Western railway, 3 east-by-south from Burford and about 5 ~ west from Witney, and in the Mid division of the county, hundred of Bampton, petty sessional division of Bampton West, union and county court district of Witney, rural deanery <lf Witney and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Nicholas is an ancient build· ing of stone, in the Early English and other styles, consisting of chancel with north chapel, nave, north aisle, north porch and an embattled western tower containing 3 bells : the chancel, with sedilia and piscina, is Early English, but has an inserted window of Perpendicular date on the south side: in the chapel, under a Decorated window containing portions of ancient stained glass, is a large recess of rich Early Decorated work inclosing a re~ cumbent female effigy, undated: a window of the latter style at the east end alSD contains fragments of simil!.r glass, and near it is an altar-drain and locker : a parcloile within a Transition arch separates this chapel from the chancel, and another, with Norman beak-head mouldings, divides the chancel from the nave ; an arcade of three arches on Norman piers separates the latter from the aisle : the windows <lf the nave furnish examples of every style except Norman, but there is a Norman font·: in 1884 the church was restored, the nave and aisles at a cost of above £1,ooo, given by Mrs. John Collier, and the chancel by Eton College, at a cost oi about £2oo: in 1892 the chancel was decorated with mural paintings and a stained window inserted: there are n8 sittings. In the churchyard is an ancient altar tomb, panelled with quatrefoils and shields. The re· gister of baptisms dates from the year 1704; marriages, 1719; burials, 1684. The living is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge £94• average £73, gross yearly value £126, with residence, in the gift of Eton College, and held since 1883 by the Rev. John Henry Kirwan Ward M.A. Trinity College, Cambridge. The charities for distribution in bread and money are £r4 yearly, of which £4 r3s. 4d. is for widows, and there are also £4 for church pur·- poses. Asthall barrow is a considerable tumulus on Akeman Street, a Roman road which formerly crossed. the river near Asthall Bridge. The old Manor House,.. which stands near the church, is now occupied by .Arthnr Charles Bateman esq. The principal landowners are Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford eeq. M.P. of Batsfordl Park, Gloucestershire, who is lord of the manor, Arthur Charles Bateman esq. Eton College and Queen's College .. Oxford. The soil is stone brash; subsoil, gravel and. rock. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is 2,171 acres; rateable value, £1,844; the population in 1891 (including the hamlet) was 351. Letters from :Burford R.S.O. arrive at 8 a.m. & 4·45 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is. at Burford. Wall Letter Box cleared at 5.30 p.m~ week days only .Asthall Leigh is a hamlet r! miles north-east and 4 north-west from Witney railway station. The church of St. John the Evangelist, built in 186r, as a chapel of ease to the parish church, is an edifice of stone in adebased form of the Decorated style, consisting of chancel and nave only : the east window is of threelights, and at the west end are two smaller windows of one light each. Wall Letter Box, Asthall Leigh, cleared at 4.30 p.m Field Assarts, 31 miles north-east, Ford-wells, 2~ miles. north, and Stonelands, 1l miles south-west, are hamletsLetters from Asthall Leigh, Field Assarts, Fordwell & Dodds plain through Witney, arrive at 8 a.m Worsham is another hamlet, one mile south-east Parish Clerk, David Shayler. National School, Asthall, built in 1873 & endowed witir £12 yearly, including £5 from a charity left by Sir G. Fetiplace, for 6o children; average attendance, 32; Miss Sarah Hirst, mistress (Marked thus t receive their letters through Witney.) tDix David, lime burner, Field .As- t:l'<Iills Robert, farmer, Asthall Leigh tPeachey Wm. shopkpr. Asthall Leigh. Bateman Arthur Charles, Manor house Quarterman George, Three Horse~ Ward Rev. John Henry Kirwan M.A. Vicarage sarts, Asthall Leigh tGentle Turner, farmer, .Asthall Leigh Hosier Samuel, shopkeeper Killmaster Richard, farm bailiff to A. C. Bateman esq. & farmer COMMERCIAL. tMusty William, blacksmith, FordtBunce Wm. Crown P.H.Asthall Leigh wells, Asthall Leigh ASTON, see Bampton ..A.ston. shoes P.H. & wheelwright Rawley James, farmer Shayler David, shoe maker tTimms Edwd. farmer, Asthall Leigh, Timms Waiter, stone mason NORTH ASTON is a parish and village on the main July, 1796: the church was restored in 1866-7: and has. road to Oxford and Banbury, I mile west from Somerton 187 sittings. The register dates regularly from the year- ~tation on the Oxford and :Birmingham section of the 1598, but there are transcripts from 1565. The living is Great Western railway, 2 south from Deddington and 8 a vicarage, tithe rent-charge £175, average £145, gross north-east from Woodstock, in the Northern division of yearly value £287, with residence, in the gift of William the county, hundred of Wootton, petty sessional division M. Foster-Melliar esq. and held since 1848 by the Rev. of WDottou North, union and county court district of Charles Rede Clifton M.A. of Merton College, Oxford~ Woodstock, rural deanery of Woodstock and archdea- North Aston Hall, the seat of William Melliar Fosterconry and diocese of Oxford; the river Cherwell (form. Melliar esq. J.P. who is lord of the manor, is a coming part of the boundary) and Oxford canal pass on the modious residence surrounded by a well-wooded park of east. The church of St. Mary is an ancient building of 50 acres. "\Y. M. Foster-Melliar esq. the vicar of Rousstone, in mixed styles, chiefly Decorated, consisting of ham and the trustees <lf Heudon Farm are the principal chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, south porch and an landowners. The soil is mixed clay and stone brash and embattled western tower of Perpendicular date, ·with sand; subsoil, the same. The land is half arable and pinnacles, containing 4 bells: the pulpit, given by half pasture. The ()nee favourite apple "Nonpareil" was Lady Howard abDut 1720, is of very fine oak and bears brought direct from Normandy to this place about 1593, the arms of the Howard family, and there are some open and was subsequently propagated by Col. Edward oak benches: the font dates from the reign of Charles Vernon, of North Aston, under the name of the "North II. : under an arch on the south side of the chancel is Aston Apple," though commDnly called the "Folks'· an altar tomb of alabaster, with recumbent figures of a Apple." The area is 1,237 acres; rateable value, £2,492;. knight and lady, to John Anne and Alice his wife, 1416; the population in 1891 was 253. and there are other memorials to :Basill Brooke, of ::Madeley, Salop, 1700, and to :Bernard Gates, choir master of the Chapels Royal and of Westminster Abbey, d. 1778, erected by his pupil Thomas Saunders Dupuis Mus. Doe. organist and composer to Geo. Ill. d. 17 Post Office.-J esse French, sub-postmast-er. Letters· through Oxford arrive at 7 a.m. & 3.50 p.m. ; dispatched at 10.40 tl.m, & 7 p.m. Deddington is thenearest money order & telegraph office

16 NORTH ASTO~. OXFORDSHIRE. [KELLY's ~ational School (mixed), established in 1855, for 70 children; average attendance, 54; Allan Robert Hill, master Carrier~.-George Mobbs, to Oxford, wed.; Boddington, from Heyford, through to Banbury, mon. & thurs Clifton Rev. Chas. Rede :M.A.Vicarage Foster-Melliar William Melliar J.P. Clifford Ann (Mrs.), :Fox & Crown P.H. & farmer Mobbs George, shopkeeper & carrier Rose .Tames A.mbrose, miller (water) North Aston hall vYilkins Frederick, baker Cave Edward, farmer French J esse, butcher, Post office Mobbs Hy. & Alfd. farmers, Dean hill owner. Sir William C. Plowden K.C.S.l. who is lord of the manor, Henry Clerke Brown esq. D.L., J.P. of Kingston Blount, and W. H. Newman esq. are, the pTincipal landowners. The parish is situated: on . the debris of the. chalk anu greensand. The chief crops aTe beans, wheat, barley, oats and roots. Area, 2,768 acres; rateable value, [3,892; the population in 1891 was 6o1. Parish Clerk, Mr. J. Hill; George Piddington. Deputy Parish Clerk, CHALFORD is a townsh.ip and hamlet r mile north. The poor's land and allotments here produce about £3 a year for dist1·ibution in money; the church. lands in the h.amlet are let out free as allotments. .AS TON ROW ANT is a parish and village, with a station on the Prince.s RisboTough and Watling;ton branch of the Great Western railway, 6 miles south from Thame, 3! north-east from Watlingtou and 39 by road' from London, in the Southern division of the oeounty, hundred of Lewknor, petty sessional division ()f Watlington, union and county court district of Thame, rural deanery of Aston and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford•. The church of SS. Peter and Paul, repaired in 185o, is an edifice of flint with stone dressings of the Early English and Decorated periods, and con:>ists nf chancel, nave of five bays, north and south chapels, south porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing a clock and a fine peal of 5 bells, thre,e of which date from 1625; the fifth being inscribed "Beuedicta sit Trinitas," and the sixth dated 1737 : KINGSTON BLOUNT is a hamlet I mile east. St. the chancel is Decorated, and has a plain arch with a John's church, a chapel of ease to the mother church, bagioscope on the north side: the font is of Early was erected in 1877, a't a cost, including site, of English date and the basin is supported on a pede.staJ £r,6oo; it was consecrated :May 4th, r877, and is an encircled with eight detached shafts; in ihe south porch edifice of red brick, consisting- ()f chancel, nave, south is a Decorated stoup: a new organ was erected in 1874 : transept, north porch and' a central bell-cot containing during the repairs an ancient stone monument was one bell: the east window is stained, and at the west discovered in the north aisle to Lady Cecil Hobbee, end is a stained lancet window with a figure of S~. wife of Sir Edward Hob bee kt. and daughter of Sir Augustine; and below it an inscription on brass to Edward Unton K.B.: at the entrance to the chancel are Alexander Penrose. Forbes D.C.L. late Bishop of Brechin the remains of a large brass to Sir Hugh-le-Blount, (r847-75), and formerly curate of this parish, who died supposed to be the founder of the church, with the at Dundee, 8 Oct. r875: there are 200 sittings. Here following inscription in Norman French: "You who pass are Congregational and Primitive Me,thodist chapels. by pray for the soul of Sir Hugh-le-Blount, the body Kingst.on House, the seat of Henry Clerke Brown esq. -of whom lies here, may Jesus Christ receive his soul; " D.L., J.P. who is lord' of the manor, stands in extensive there is also a brass to Ralph Compoite, 1437, and his pleasure grounds, at the base of the Chiltern Hills. wife Isabella, 1441 ; and another with male and female Kingston Grove, now occupied by Col. John Fane Ballard, fig.ure,s, and those of five children, c. 1470 : the church stands about a mile from the village and immediately was restored in 1s83- 4, at a cost of £g6o, and has at the foot of the Chiltern Hills; the scenery around 280 sittings. The register dates from the year 1554, is very picturesque. and contains entries relating to Stokenchurch parish Post Office, Kingston Blount.-Hamp Spriggs, sub-postfrom that date to 1706. The living is a vicarage, corn- master. Letters received from Tetsworth rut 7.30 a.m. muted tithe rent-charge £84, average £63, net yearly & r. r5 p.m.; dispatched at 6. ro p.m. on week days value £140, with 64- acres of glebe and residence, in & 11.40 on sunday, The nearest money order & teJethe gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1893 graph office is at Lewknor. Postal orders are issued by the Rev. Francis l\Ionkhouse Sparks, of Jesus College., here, but not paid Oxford, and the University of London. The charities for Wall Letter Box, Aston Rowant, cleared wt 6.30 p.m. & distribution in clothing and money amount to about £36 on sundays r2.5 p.m ;yearly, chiefly arising from the James charity of [32; Schools. the church lands produce £4 a year. Aston House, National (mixed), built in 1844, for go children; average the seat .of Sir William Chichele Plowden K.O.S.I., .T.P. attendance, 59; Robert E. Hibbs, master stands in a park of 16o acres, and is surrounded by Infants', Kingston Blount, for so children; average extensive shrubberies and gardens, with a lake in front: attendance, 34; Miss Green, mistress the mansion has been much improved by the present Railway Station, Ernest Henry James, stati{)n master ASTON ROW ANT. Bvown Henry Clerke D.L., J.P. King- Delafield Fred. farmer, Kingston Stur~ ston house Fleet Clement, mason & builder Plowden Sir Wm. Chichele K.C.S.I., Fielding Mrs. Kingston villa Fletcher William, farmer J.P. Aston house Sparks Rev. Francis Hamp Mrs. The Firs Hill J oseph & Son, hay & corn dlrs. Monkhouse, Hatton Mrs farmers & landowners Vicarage Hatton Thomas Seigne Newitt Charles, Cherry Tree P.H Young William, The Cottage Hill Mrs. James Nicholls Thos.Hy.Red Lion coffee ho Archer Richard M. Lambert Arms P.H Gambell John, farmer Hill Joseph North Goo. farmer, Lower farm Oakley Robert, baker & mealman Seymour Alfred, builder & mason Siarev 1Vm. H. builder & contractor Green William, farmer, Hill farm Jackson Arthur, farm bailiff to Henry COM~1ERC1AL. Barnett John, blacksmith • Clerke Brown esq. J.P Moleseed James, gardener to Sir Wm. C. Plowdeu K.C.S.I., J.P Britnell Alfred George, beer retailer Britnell John (Mrs.), laundress Buckland Liberty, brazier Smith Stephen, beer retailer Spriggs Hamp & Co. grocers, drapers &c. Post office Mullis Sarah (Mrs.), laundress Shrimpton Thos. farmer, Home farm Chapman Thomas, butcher Stevens Mrs. assistant overseer Wakelin Richd. wheelwright & carpntr KINGSTON BLOUNT. Clark Edwd. Jas. farmer, Town farm Croxford George, mason CHALFORD. Ballard Col. John Fane, Kingston gro Delafield Cornelia (Mrs.), farmer, Kingston Sturt DevereJ.l Thos. farmer, Copcvurt frm 'STEEPLE ASTON is a parish and a ve:ry pleasant -village, r! miles north-west from Heyford station on the Oxford and Birmingham section of the Great Western railway, 6~ north-by-east from Woodstock, 13 north from Oxford and 4 south from Deddington, in the Northern division of the county, hundred of Wootton, petty sessional division of Woottan North, union and county court district of Woodstock, rural deanery of "\Voodstock, archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The river Cherwell, forming the boundary of the parish in part, a.nd the Oxford canal pass on the east. The church of St. Pete.r is a building of stone in mixed styles, its earliest portions being Early English~ it consists of chancel, north charutry chapel, nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower of Perpendicular date, containing a clock and 6 bells, dating from 1675 to 1827, and a sanctus bell, dated· rB67: the chancel is debased Perpendicular and has an east window of three lights, with two transoms, and a restored screen; the north chapel retains a fine Decorated east window and a piscina of the same date; on its north side is a monument by Scheemaker to Sir Francis Page kt. baron of the Exchequer, :1718-26, and successively justice of the Common Pleas and the King's Bench, d'. 31 Oct. 1741, and Frances (Wheate), his 2nd wife, d. 1730; uh8 judge, who was notorious for his arbitrary conduct to prisoners and is satirized by P{)pe, had an estate here, and erected this monument during his lifetime : the

DffiECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. MARSH BALDON. 17 nave is Early English and has arcades of three arches; sham Park, who is lord of the manor, Bertram Savile the Perpendicular north aisle was rebuilt about 1846; Ogle esq. Vice-Admiral R. Bradshaw C.B. the rector, and the south aisle is Decorated, as are. the south door and the trustees of W. Wing esq. are the. principal landporch; the benches are all <>f carved oak of Late owners. The soil and subsoil are chiefly oolite stone Perpendicular work and were restored in 1842: the brash, the meadows in the Cherwell valley being deep, font is round, but its age is disputed, some assigning rich alluvial land; the arable land bears superior it to the 12th century: in the church is carefully crops of barley, turnips and mangold wurtzel; the cr<>ps preserved an ancient cope, 4ft. 3in. wide. and 5ft. 2in. of wheat and oats do not reach the average. of the • in length, richly embroidered with the martyrdoms of county, but for sheep the land is esteemed suitable saints; it was long since cut up so as to form a reredos and very healthy. The area is r,o38 acres; rateable and frontal for an aJtar, in which condition it still value, £2,917; the population in r8gr (including 104 in survives, though somewhat decayed: in the north aisle Middle Aston) was 803. is a brass, in good preservation, dated 1525 : a. stone MIDDLE ASTON is a. township of Steeple Aston, from reredos has been erected by the present rector and an which place it is i mile north, and consists of two organ. was presented a few years ago by the late J. farms and a few cottages. Charles Waiter CottrellLechmere esq. and others: in the chancel i& buried Dormer esq. is lord of the manor and sole landowner. Daniel Greenwood D.D. appointed principal of Erase- The area is 892 acres; rateable value, £995; the popunose College, Oxford, 1647·8, by the Parliamentary lation in 1 g91 was 104. Commissioners, but ejected! in Aug. r66o, by thoso of Charles TI. d. 29 Jan. r673_ 4, and! his nephew, Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Expres~ Delivery & Annuity Daniel Greenwood M.A. rector here from r6s3 until & Insurance Office.-Caroline Mary Grace, sub-posthis death at Woodstook, I4 Oct. r679 ; the fabric mistress. Letters from the south through Oxford oi the church was restored in I8f2, and has 250 arrive at 3.30 a.m. & I p.m.; from the north through sittings. The register of baptisms dates from the year Banbury arrive at 10 a.m. & I.IS p.m.; dispatched 1543 ; marriages, 153s ; burials, 159s. The living is a north at noon & 6.20 p.m. ; south, 9 p.m. ; sundays, rectory, net yearly value £462, with residence, in the arrive 3·3° a.m.; dispatched 9 p.m gift of Brasenose College, Oxford, and held since r86J Wall Letter Box, Middle Aston, cleared daily 7·50 p.m 1:ry the Rev. John Henry Brookes M.A. late. fellow of that Schools. college.. North .A.ston, Middle As ton and Steeple Aston .A. technica.l school has been erected here, at a cost have a joint subscription Fire Engine Society, estab- of £ r,ooo, from funds provided by Radcliffe's charity; lished in 1831; the engine station is in this parish. chairman of governms, Rev. John Henry Brookes M.A Dr. Radcliffe's almshouse, founded in 1648 by Samuel Endowed, foundedJ by deed in r64o, by Dr. Samuel Radcliffe D.D. rector here r6IJ, until sequestered by the Radcliffe, principal of Brasenose College (1614-48), Parliament in 1646, is for two a.Imsfolk, usua.Ily women; who died 26th !June, 1648, with an income of the endowment is in the hands of the PrincipaJ and £82 4s. 2d. yearly, now greatly increased; it will hold Fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford, of which the uo children; average attendance, 98 ; George 0. founder was some. time principal, and produces £4 Porter, master y-early for each inmate. About 1622 a Roman te&Sellated Infants', erected in 1875, for 58 children; average pavement, with patterns arranged in oblong squares, attendance, 50; Miss Wilks, mistress was discovered here. Steeple Aston Grange is the residence of Vice-Admiral Richard Bradshaw C.B., J.P. and Fire Brigade, George Stevens, engine keeper Hill House, of Bertram Savile Ogle esq. J.P. Charles Carrier.-John W~stcm, to Banbury, mon. & thurs.; Waiter Cottrell-Dormer esq. of Middle A&ton and Rou- to Oxford, sat STEEPLE ASTON. Clifford .A.rth. frmr. Brasenose farm Kinch William, farmer Cole Thomas, Hopcraft's Holt P.H. & Maycock Richard, miller (water), J3radshaw Vice-Admiral Richard C.B., farmer Cuttle mill J.P. The Grange Fenemore William, farmer Midwinter Benjamin, farmer Brookes Rev. Jn. Hy. M.A. Rectory Field Nathan, wheelwright & farmer Price Frederick, blacksmith Budd Mrs Franks Harry, baker Steeple Aston Co-operative Society Cartwright Mrs. Cedar lodge George Evan Am os, boot & shoe maker (Gabriel Jordan, sec) Eckstein John Joseph Gilks James, shopkeeper Stockle-y George, coal dealer Faithfull Rev. Charles Henry M.A Grace John Wm. grocer & draper Turner Eli, Dun Cow P.H Hemingway Edward Vavasour Hemingway Edwd. Vavasour M.R.C.S. Walton John, butcher & beer retlr Holmes .Alfred Hewston B.A., :M.B Eng. surgeon, & medical officer & Warland Elizh. (Mrs.), Red Lion P.H Ogle Bertra.m Savile M . .A..,J.P. Hill ho public vaccinator, Deddington dist. Ward George Nicholson, registrar of Smith Miss No. 2, Woodstock union & medical births, deaths & marriages, Tiedofficer Heyford dist. Bicester union dington sub-dist. & relieving offica:r COMMERCIAL. Hemingway & Holmes, physicians & to Woodstock nnion surgeons W eston J obn, carrier Austin William, shopkeeper Rinks Henry, corn & cake dealer J3arrett Robert, gravestone cutter Holmes Alfred Hewston B..A.., M.B., MIDDLE ASTON . .Baggett Waiter, butcher B.Ch. physician & surgeon, see .Banks Thomas, farrier Hemingway & Holmes Cottrell-Dormer Chas. Walt. D.L.,J.P Bennett John, wheelwright Hopcroft Thos. builder & contractor Little Henry, land agent to C. W . .Bennett William, road surveyor Hurst Richd. blacksmith & beer retl:r Cottrell-Dormer esq .Bishop Wells, boot maker Jordan Gabriel, assistoot overseer ISirett Thos. Fras. frmr. Grange frm ATTINGTON, formerly extra-parochial, is a small parish I mile south-east from Tetsworth and 3 miles south-west fram Thame station on the Princes Risborough and! Oxford branch of the Great Western railway, in the Southern division of the county, petty sessional division of Bullingdon, union and county court district of Thame. Wenman Aubrey Wykeham-Musgrave esq. J.P., D.L. of Thame Park, who is lord of the manor, Frederick Harold Deverell esq. aud .Alfred Deverell Deverell Alfred J.P . .A.ttington house I MARSH (or MARCH) :BALDON, anciently" Baldendone" and "Baldington," is a parish and village, 3~ miles north-we-st from Littlemore station, on the 'Oxford and Wycombe section of the Great Western railway, 5~ south-east from Oxford1 , in the Southern division of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of Bullingdon, union and county court district of Abingdon, rural deanery of Cuddesdon, a.rchdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The Roman .Akeman Street passed both places <Jf this name in proceeding from Shotover to Wallingford. The church of St. Peter is an ancient edifice of stone in the Decorated and Peresq. J.P. are the principal landowners. The soil is loamy; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat and beanS!. The area is 435 acres; rateable value, £546; the population in r89r was 25. Lettf'rs through Tetsworth, the nearest post, money order & telegraph office, arrive at 7.30 a.m This place is included in the United School Board district of Tetsworth, formed in 1877 Hicks Capt. Charles, .A.ttington farm pendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle and a. Decorated western tower mantled with ivy and containing 4 bells : on the erection of the north aisle, the east window was removed thither and its place occupied by a painting of the- " Annunciation" by Guido, presented in 1794 by Sir Christopher Willoughby, rst hart. ; this picture has since been in turn removed ta the west end, and the former east window replaced: it is filled with glass of dates from the 13th to the 17th century, and includes figures of St. Anne, the Virgin Mary and St. John, the shields of Gifford and !h la Mare above; and below, those of Henry V I'll. OXON. 2

18 1\!ARSE .DALDON, OXFO.HDSHIRE. [KELLY'S and the families of Pollard and Danvers: on each side the park are some remains of the old parish church of of the tower arch removed here from the chancel, are Nuneham Courtney, comprising part of a fine Early two monuments in a debased Gothic style, to friends English window, a lancet window and a tomb, with and relatives .of Sir Christopher Willoughby bart. and effigies of Sir Anthony Pollard kt. 1577, and Philippa his on the side of the chancel is a monument with twisted wife, 1606. Sir John Christopher ·wmoughby bart. of columns and a long Latin inscription to Ann, wife of Berwick lodge, Bristol, who is lord of the manor and John Crawley D.D. 170I and daughter of John Pollard Queen's College, Oxford, are the principal landowners. and Susanna (Danvers ), his wife ; on the floor are two The soil is light sand; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops ste>ne slabs, one of which bears the quartered• coat are wheat, oats, barley and beans. Th~ area is 77r of Danvers, and an inscription to John Danvers, of this acres; rateable. value, £r,I37; the population in r89r place, ob. r65r; the other is inscribed to J.ohn Bridges was 270. D.D. :Bishop of Oxford, 1603-18, and displays a shield Parish Clerk, Edmund Goading. of his arms impaling: those of the see: there are 200 Post Office.-Alfred Joseph G{)oding, sub-postmaster. sibtings. The register dates from the year 1559. The Letters arrive from Oxford at 7.8 a.m.; dispatched at living is a rectmy, gross yearly value from tithe rent- 5.40 p.m. ; sundays, arrive 7.8 a.m. ; dispatched 2.30 charge £236, with residence, in the gift of Sir John p.m.; Nuneham Courtney is the nearest money order Christopher Willoughby bart. and held since r885 by the office. Sandford-on-Thames is the nearest telegra11h Rev. Philip Charles Bevan M.A. of Pembroke College, office. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid Cambridge. The. charities amount to about £15 yearly, Free School, founded in 1771, by Elizabeth Lane, for which sum is given away in coal. Ealdon House, an 6 boys & 6 girls, but since enlarged for 40 children; ancient mansion of brick, standing in a small park, is the average attendance, 40; :l\Iiss L. Cooper, mistress property of Sir John Christopher Willoughby bart. but Carriers.-Alfred Carter & John Carr, to Abingdon~ at present occupied by Leigh Hoskyns esq. J .P.; in on mon.; to Oxford, wed. & sat Bevan Rev. Philip Chas. M.A. Rectory Carr John, carrier Jones Thomas, Seven Stars P.H Hoskyns Leigh J.P. Baldon house Carter Alfred, carrier Matingley Peter, farmer, Hill farm Clark Elizabeth M. (Mrs.), baker & Nc.rthcott Mark, farmer COMMERCIAL. butcher Shrimpton Mark & George, farmers. Besley Levi, blacksmith Goading Thomas, butcher Durham Leys farm TOOT BALDON, commonly called Ealdon Toot, is The living, formerly. a peculiar .of Dorchester Abbey, a parish + miles south-east from Littlemore stai:i.cn on is a discharged! vicarage, net yearly valUB! [34, with the Oxford and Wycombe section of the Great Western s! acres of glebe and! residence, in the gift of the railway, 4 south-west from Wheatley station on the s:1me Bishop of Ox.fordl, and held since 1894 by the Rev. line, and about tho same distance nortb.-we;;t from AndTew Edgar Caldecott M.A. of Trinity College, CamCulham f.tation on the Great Western line from Dideot bridge. Wilmot's charity of £2 yearly is appropriated to Oxford, and 5 south-east from Oxford, m the Southern to the relief .of the. poor who are not in receipt oi division of the county, hundred and petty ses.sional parochial aid: the poor's allotment of Marsh Baldon division of Bullingdon, nnion and county courb district provides £8 yearly for the poor of this parish. Tha of AbiDgdon, rural deanery of Cuddesdon, archdeaconry ProvDst and! scholars of Queen's C<lllege, Oxford, who and dioces3 {)f Oxford. The Baldon brook flows through are lords of the manor, Sir John Christopher Willoughby the parish. The church of St. Lawrence, standing on hart. of Berwick lodge, Bristol, and Aubrey Harcourt e~q. an eminence, is a small but ancient edifice of stone in of Nuneha.m Courtney, are ·the chief landed proprieh,rs. the Transition Norman and Early English styles and The soil is variable and includes gravel, sand and day;. consists of chancel, nave and aisles under the same roof, subsoil, Oxfordshire· clay. The chief crops are wheat, south transept, south porch and a gable bell-cote at barley and beans. The area is 1,53! acres; rateable the west end containing 2 bells: in the chancel are value, £r,554; the population in 1891 was 292. two small square lockers : the nave has arcades of four Little Bald<.n is a hamlet, ~ miles. Early English arches on each side on massive piers, Parish Clerk, William Clinkard. with boldly foliaged caps, the, easternmost having a Letters through Oxford: the. nearest money order office small trefoil-headed niche above the cap: the transept, fs Nuneham· Courtney & Sandford-on-Thames the or chapel, on the south side dates from the 14th cen- nearest telegraph office. Wall Letter Box cleared at tury, and has a Decorated window, with slight remains <lf stained glass; the doorway of the south porch is 5· 10 p.m TransitiDn Norman; the font is circular and of Early National School, built in 1874, & enlarged in 1886, forEngJ.ish date: the church retains a number of old floor 85 children; average attendance, 56; & supported by tiles, but these are much worn: in the churchyard, voluntary contributions from vicar, chief landowners &: on the south side, are. the shaft and base of a Per· farmers amounting to £57 rss. & also with £5 from pendicular cross and a yew tree of some age : there Betton's charity; William Lewis, ma.ster are 168 sittings. The register dates from the year I579· Carrier.-Mrs. Ann Pitson, to Oxford, on wed. & sat ClaJdecot:b Rev . .Andrew Edgar M.A. Bravinglon Robert, farmer Pitson Wm. Harper, Crown P.H Vicarage Ca.Titer Sidney, sh<Jpkeeper & higglt-r Rainey John Crofton, farmer .Aldworth J ames, farmer Pitson Ann (Mrs.), higgler & carrier Rippivgton Richard, beer retailer Arnold James, carpenter PitJson John, farmer :BALDWYN BRIGHTWELL, see Brightwell Baldwin. :BAMPTON is a market town, township and parish chimes playing the hymn "Abide with me," every four in an agricultural district, watered by the river Isis and hours: the chancel retains sedilia and piscina of Early several tributary streams, with a station about 2 miles English date and a very singular Easter sepulchre of north of the town, on the Oxford and Fairford branch Perpendicular work ; there remain also some fine old of the Great Western railway, and is I4 miles west from carved stalls, with misereres and benches carved with Oxford, 6 north from Faringdon, 5 south-west from various heraldic devices: the north transept has a chapel Witney and 71 from London, in the Witney county court on its eastern side, within which is a fine recumbent district and union, 1\lid division of the county, hundred effigy, apparently of the date of Henry IV. {1309-1413), of Bampton, petty sessional division of Bampton East, but much mutilated: the very fine reredos is adorned rural deanery of Witney and archdeaconry and diocese with figures of our Lord and the twelve apostles underof Oxford. By an Order in Council, dated December rich canopies: the south transept has two chapels, one 3oth, r845, Bampton was divided into three erclesiastical on either side; the easternmost is called the Hard parishes, viz. Bampton (proper), Bampton Aston and chapel from having been the burial place of the family Bampton Lew. The town consists chiefly of three streets of that name, formerly owners of Cote House: in the converging in a spacious market place, and i& lighted transept is an interesting monument, with effigies and with petroleum under the management of a lighting verses, to George 'Thomson, 1603: at the end of this committee. The church of St. Mary the Virgin is a fine transept is a Late Norman doorway richly carved: the and spacious cruciform building of stone, chiefly of nave is separated from the aisles by arcades of massive the Transition period from Early English to Decorated, character: the roofs are open timbered and of the same the chancel and base of the tower being of very Earlv date: the tower, supported on Transition Norman Norman or possibly Saxon date; it consists of chancel, arches, has four figures of saints at the angles, in place nave of four bays, clerestoried transepts, aisles, three of pinnacles, and an octagonal spire rising to a height of chapels attached to the transepts, south porch, a very 170 feet from the ground: there are brasses to Thom\ls handsome western porch of the date of Henry TII. Plymmyswode, vicar, c. 1429, in surplice and almice; (12I6-7z), and a central tower with spire containing 6 Rc.bert Holcot A.M. "venerabilis ac scientificus vir," )ells, a sanctus bell, or "ting-tang," and a clock with vicar 1500, in cope; and Frances (Gardner), wife of Sir

DIRECTORY. J OXFORDSHIRE. B.AMPTON. 19 Thomas Hard, of Cote, 1633: the church was restored in r87o under the direction of Mr. Ewan Christian, architect, the parish advancing £r,ooo for the purpose; the chancel was completed at the expense of the late vicar and some friends, with assistance from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners : there are 503 sittings, 235 being free: in the churchyard, under the east window, is another recumbent effigy. The register of baptisms and marriages dates from October, 1538; burials from 1692, and from 1783 to 1812 includes entries relating to Shifford; there are also overseers' books from 1718 and from 1822. The living of Bampton (proper) is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge £Ioo, average £76, net income [439, including glebe (£412), with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, and held since 1872 by the Rev. Edward George Hunt M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford, and surrogate. The Baptist chapel will seat 200; the Particular Baptist, built in r86I, affords go sittings; and the Wesleyan Chapel, built in 1892, seats 130. A cemetery of about one acre, at the north end of the town, was opened for interments in 1891, at a cost of nearly £soo, defrayed by the ratepayers. The Town Hall, erected about r84o, at a cost of [3oo, is a plain rectangular building of stone gabled on all four sides, the lower stage forms an open arcaded market and fire engine house, part of the upper floor is used as a subscription reading room, and there is also a small lending library. The stock market, formerly held on the 3rd "\Vednesday of the month, has now been discontinued. .A. large fair for horses is held on the 26th and 27th of .August. The charities for distribution in bread and clothing, fuel and money, amount to about £140 yearly, which sum is distributed according to the discretion of the trustees under the provisions of the new scheme of the Charity Commissioners. The Deanery, now in the occupation of Lieut. Frederick Williams, is a picturesque Elizabethan house with gabled roofs and mullioned windows. Ham Court, a short distance to the west of the church and deanery, comprises a gateway and other unimportant remains of an ancient castellated house, built by .Aymer De Valence, 2nd and last Earl of Pembroke of that family, murdered iu France, 27 June, 1323, but buried in Westminster Abbey. Bampton Manor House is the property and residence of Ivan Musgrave Watson esq. Mrs. Robert Hockley Bullen is lady of the manor. The lan<lowners are Jesus College, Oxon, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the Duke of Marlborough, Philip Southby esq. John Fox esq. and some smaller owners. The soil ,is gravelly ; subsoil, gravel. The area is 4,277 acres, principally arable; rateable value, £7,121; the population of Hampton and Weald in 1891 was 1,346. Parish Clerk, William Thomas Mills. Sexton, John Tanner. W eald, a hamlet, really forms a part of the town ; it has a blanket charity of about £9 yearly. Wall LetteJ> Box cleared 9.20 a.m. & 7·3 p.m Aston, Brighthampton, Chimney, Cote and Shiffor~ were formerly hamlets of the ancient parish of BamptoJJr but are now separated from Bampton (proper), and wi/". be found under Bampton Aston ecclesiastical parish. Lew is given under the heading of Bampton Lew. Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity & Insurance Office.-Thomas "\Veils Pembrey, subpostmaster. Letters arrive from Faringdon at 5.30 a.m. & 3.30 p.m. ; dispatched at g.Io a.m. & 8.3 p.m. (box closes at 7.50 p.m.); dispatched on sunclays at 8.3 p.m. Money orders granted from 9 a.m. till 8 p.m Public Establishments. Cemetery, John Tanner, sexton Fire Engine Lighting Committee, TV. A. Rigden, sec Police Station, Thomas Skitmoor, constable-in-charge & one man St·amp Office, Thomas Wells Pembrey, distributor Thames Valley Drainage Board (No. 3 Bampton trict), George James Haines, clerk to the board 0 Public Officers. Assistant Overseer, .Tames Butler disMedical Officer & Public Va<!cinator, Bampton DiEtrict, Witney Union, J ames Pimlott Oates, Oathurst Town Crier, Robert Cox Schools The Grammar School was founded in 1635 by Robert Veysey esq. of Chimney ; the school is endowed with about 8 acres of land and a sum of £4oo Stock, given in 1784, which produce about £20 yearly & £u ns. 4d. from the Charity Commissioners ; there is an attached house for the master; Edmund Robert Farbrother, master National (mixed & infants), erected in I8Jr, on a site given by the Right Hon. Charles John Chetwynd, r8th Earl of Shrewsbury, for 250 children, & endowed with about £35 yearly from charities left by S. Frederick. Mary Dewe, Loder & others; average attendance, 17-1; William Vickery Williams, master; Mrs. William s, infants' mistress Railway Station, Harry Gunn, station master Payne & Son's omnibus meets all trains Carriers to :- Oxford-Bryant, to New inn, wed. & sat.; Egg1eton. wed. & sat Witney-Bryant, thurs 1 Southby Miss PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Southby Philip .J.P Collins Joseph, cowkeeper Cowley Robert, plumber & glazier Baker Mrs 1 Staples Browne Frederick John J.P Cox Robert, town crier :Blackburne Rear-AdrmiraJ Francis Taunt Fredk. W. Waterloo house Richard, Weald Manor house Vickers Mrs. Manor cottage Camptell Neile Malcolm, Felix cot Warren Miss, :Broad street Carter Theophilus Watkins Mrs Clare Mrs. Alma house Watson Ivan Musgrave, The Manor ho Cook Mrs. Wm. Hartland villa Williams Lieut.Frdk.R.N. The Deanery Davie Rev. Geo. Jn. M.A. Bungalow Dutson Rev. Geo. Edwd. (Wesleyan) COMMERCIAL. Dutton Miss, Evergreen cottage Alien .Tames, beer retailer 0 Cripps George William, blacksmith Daniels lVilliam Alfred, beer retailer Day Fras.Edwd.Elephant & Castle P.H Dutton George Willlam, family grocer, italian warehouseman. chemist & oil merchant ( establ:ilshed by Richard: DuttO!ll', 1751), & agent for W. & .A. Gilbey Lim. wine ~ spirit mers. & agent for the MetreEarly Mrs. South side Andrews Selina (Mrs.), dress maker, politan (England & Wales) Bank Lim Edmonds Mrs. Broad street Rose cottage Farbrother Edmd. Rt. Grammar echl Baker .John, job. gardener,Sandford ho Fox Mrs. William Beiard James, printer & stationer, Gerring Mrs. W . .A.. Sandfords Market place Rerbert Miss, Sberborne terrace Benfield Henry, boot maker Hitchcock W. LaD!~, Low croft Brooks Alfd. hair dresser & toy dh Hodgson Mrs. Broad street Ilryant Alfd.Jsph.day schl. & news agt Humphries Charles J ames Bryant Henry Batten, carrier Hunt Rev. Edward George M.A.(vicar Busby Edgar, cowkeeper, Sandiords & surrogate), Vicarage Butler Richard, coal dealer Jackson Rev. Joseph B.A. (vicar of Butler Henry, boot maker Bampton Le·.v), Holy Trinity vicarge Butler J ames, assistant overseer Jennings Mr!f Carter Joseph (the exors.), farmers, Lefcrestier Mrs Weald Lindup Waiter G_ The Grange Carter Lucy (Miss),lndrss. Church st Martin Mrs. Fernlea Castle Prances M. farmer, Weald frm Oakey Mrs. The Poplars Cemetery (John Tanner, sexton) Oates Jame>J Pimlott, Oathurst Charities Trustees (William .Attwood Pembrey Misses, The Elms Rigden, clerk) Prall J. Henniker, Lime Tree house Clack Emma (Mrs.), New inn Rigden William Attwood Clare Cornelius (Mrs.), butcher Robins Rev. Joseph B., B.A. Market pi Collett Oliver, watch maker Rose Miss, Fishers bridge Collett Sarah (Mrs.), fancy repository Edgington Amelia (Miss), dress maker Edmonds Fanny Maria (Mrs. ),drssma. Eeles James, grocer & ironmonger Eggleton Charles, carrier Farbrother Edmund Robert, master. · of Grammar school Fox Edward, carpenter FrancombB' William, fish dealer French Eliza (Miss), laundress, Pro-- spect place French Robert, beer retailer Gardner Henry Thomas, tea dealer Gerring George, farmer, College farm Gerring George Edwd.farmer,Broad l!t Gibbard Daniel, blacksmith Gillett & Co. bankers (sub-branch), open fri. II to 2 (F. M. Green, mngr.); draw on Glyn, :Mills, Currie & Co. London E 0 Gillett Cbas.frmr.Lower Haddon farm Grammar School (Edmund Robert Farbrother, master) Green & Son, builders, Church .street OXON. 2*

.20 BAMPTON. OXFORDSHIRE, Great Western Railway Parcels Re- Payne & Son, carriers (Joseph Lardceiving Office (Payne & Sons, agts.) ner, manager) Greenwood Thos.George &Dragon P.H Pembrey Sarah & Rebecca (Misses), Haynes Henry,farmer,Mount Owen fm ladies' boarding school, The Elms Hemming John, farmer, W eald Pembrey Thom.ts Wells, linen draper Hill Thomas, tailor & carpet warehouse, & distributor Hobbs Chas. farmer, Deanery farm of stamps, Post office Jacks ... m James, monumental mason Pinnock James, beer retailer King Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Plaster James, baker La.it James Bailey, veterinary surgeon Plaster Joseph, cabinet maker Lane Ma.ry (Mrs.), Wheat,sheaf P.H PraH John Henniker L.R.C.P.Lond., Lawrence Fanny (Miss), seeds dealer M.R.C.S.Eng. physician & surgeon, Lending Library (Miss M. Launch- Lime Tree house bury, librarian) Reading Room (William V. Williams), Lighting Committee (W. A. Rigden, hon. sec.) secretary) Rigden William Attwood, solicitor, & Loveridge Matthew, tinman, Weald clerk to the Brize Norton School Meal James, shoe maker, Broad st Board & to the Bampton charities Metropolitan (of England & Wales) trustee~ Bank Lim. (agency) (G. W. Dutt,Jn, I Rose Richard Thos. frmr.Knopps frm agent); hours, 10 to 5 daily; draw Rose Thomas Johnson (the exors.), on he.ld offi~e, 6o Gracechurch st. farmers & threshing machine proprs London EC Sheppard Amelia (Mrs.), baker, l\IarOakey Joshua, saddler & farmer ket place Oat'*! James Pimlott M.R.C.S.Eng. Shrimpton Frederick Edward, farm surgeon, & medical officer & public bailiff to Rear-Adml. F. Blackburne vaccinator, Bampton dist. Witney Spurrett Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper union, Oathnrst Spurrett Teresa (Mr~.). shopkeeper (DLLY'S Stephens Fred~.grcr.baker & beer ret Stone Annie (Mrs.), l\Ialt Shovel P.R Stone John, builder & tobacconist St::me Martha. (Mrs.), fancy repository Swinforrl Henry, wood dealer Tanner Benjarnin, thatcher, Church st Tanner John, haulier, Fishers bridge Taunt Fk. Wm. organist & teacher of music, Waterloo house Taylor Henry, butcher & farmer Thames Valley Drainage Board (No.3, Bampton district) (George James Haines, clerk to the board) Thomas Sarah (Mrs.), seams,tress Townsend G. beer retailer Townsend Matilda. (Miss), dress. maker Turner John Holliday, baker Wallis George, road survyr.Callis frm Wallis John William, corn dealer 'Varmau Charles, watch maker Wenman Embury, baker West Richard, farm bailiff to James Hissey esq. W eald White John, farmer, Ham Court farm Williams Cambria, plumber Winslett Chas.Talbot htl.& posting ho Wirdnam Wiliam, saddler Woodley Jas.& Son,chimney sweepers :BAMPTON ASTON is an ecclesiastical parish formed 1 oak staircase. The population in r89I was, -with Aston, Dec. 3oth, I845, from the civil parish of Bamph•n, em- 1 730; rateable value, £3,726. bracing the hamlets of ..A.ston and Cote and the chapelry p . h Cl k J h F of Shifford, with the hamlets of Brighthampton and D ari\ per. 'h ~l n k ~· b L Chimney, 3~ miles south-east from B am pton station 1 W ~P~ rt a~s ler ' d at a~ ong. k d l and 4~ south from Witney station, both on the Oxford A a h el er oxt, bcl~ahred ha ·:1-0 P 8 · 8 m 8 . fweeth tays. ~n Y f d F · f d b h f th G t nr t ·1 d se oo was es a IS e ere In I or e rmnmg o an air or ranc o e rea n es ern rai way, an tl . 11 · 1 f d t" · .1. ·1 t f B t · th l\I"d d" · · 0 f th I 1e VI age gir s or omes ,IC service r 2 mi es eas rom amp on, m e n I IVISI n o e county, hundred o~ Bampton, petty sessio~al. division,_of 1 SHIFFORD, on the Isis, 2~ miles south-east, is a llampton East, umon. an~ county court district of. ''It- I chapelry to which Bright ham pton and Chimney paid ney, rural deanery or 'VItney, archdeaconry and. diocese 1 church-rates; it consists now only of two farms and a ?f Oxfor~. The church ~f St. J ame~, erected m . I 8_39· few cottages. The chapel, erected in I 863, is a small 1s a cruciform structure m the Gothic style, consistmg 1 but elegant building in the Gothic style, consisting of of chanc_el, naye, trans_erts, north porch and a wes~ern 1 chancel and nave with a western bell turret containing tower With spire contammg 6 bells: the font was given 2 bells. The register of baptisms and burials dates by _the Rev. -! ohn Nelson; the church was restored from the year I783; marriages, I786; there are entries durm~ ~he period 18~5-9, at a cost of £;563, and affords of baptisms and burials relating to this place from I783 500 sittmgs, 350 bemg_ ~ree .. The !eg1ster d_ates from to r8I2, and of marriages from I8I3 to I835, in the the year r839. The hvmg IS a VIcarage, bthe re:r:t- I registers of Dampton proper. In this place, and near char~e £7;7• average £617, n~t year_ly valu~ £484, I~- the chapel, is a piece of ground called "Court Close," cludmg 11 2 acres of glebe, With residence, m the gift where it is believed Alfred the Great held a Council of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, and held_ since r884 Cott. MS. Brit. M:us. ..A.ubrey Harcourt esq. of Nune: by the Rev. Arthur Thomas Carnsew Cow1e io.I.A. of ham Park is lord of the manor and chief landowner. O~iel College, Oxford. , The B~I?tist cbap~l, built in r845, The soil is gravel and clay; subsoil, clay. The crops Will seat I So. Horde s chanties compnse one of £ ro are the usual cereals. The population in I8gr was 31. yearly, for clothing and relief, and another of £6 for . . educational purposes; Wilmot's of I3S. 4d. is for cloth- BRIGHT~AMPTO~ lS a ham~et, 3 miles e~st fr~m ing and general relief. The clerk's lands of 2a. rr. Aston, and-~ 189I. ha? a. :pop~latmn of 6I. Weals chanty allotted in r84S, are occupied by the deputy parish of £4 ISS. ]S for distnbutwn m money. clerk; Fox's charity of £4 is for church purposes. CHIMJ'\EY, 2 miles south-east, is separated from .Major William Henry Hippisley, of Sparsholt, Berks. Berkshire by the river Isis, and consists of two farms who is lord of the manor, Mr. W. White, the trustees of and some cottages, the property of the Ecclesiastical the Rev. James Harley Usill M.A. formerly vicar of Commissioners. An ancient chapel, once standing here, l<'ulbourn, Cambs. and Lieut. F. Williams R.N. are the was taken down in 1758. The population in I891 was <:hief landowners. The soil is suitable for the growth 26; the area is 648 acres; rateable value, £330 . . of barley and wheat; subsoil, clay and gravel. . The Post Office, Aston.-Gabriel Long, sub-postmaster. Letpopulation of the whole parish of Bampton Aston in 189I ters from Faringdon via Bampton, arrive at 7 a.m. & was 848, and the area 2,gr8 acres; rateable value, 6 p.m.; dispatched at 7 p.m. Bampton is the nearest Cb'~E is half a mile east and consists of several farms money order & telegraph office. Postal orders are und cottages. Here is an ancient Baptist chapel, en- issued here, but not paid !lowed with a house at Aston for the minister: in the National School (mixed), erected in 1845 & enlarged thapel is a memorial to Thomas Dunscombe M.A. 36 r8g4, for I8o children; average attendance, 135 ; it years pastor, I8II; the chapel will seat 400, and has has an endowment of £6 yearly from Horde's charity; registers of births datin~ from I647, and of burials Thomas Henry Pattenden, master; Miss I. M. Fattenfrom r657. Cote House is a Late Elizabethan or den, mistress Jacobean mansion, with a gabled centre and two pro- Police Station, ..A.ston, William Henry Tipping, constable jecting wings of unequal height; it contains a massive Carrier to Witney.-Thomas Sparrowhawk, thurs ..A.STON. Clarke James, farmer Harris Harry, general dealer Cook Edmund, ma~son Kimber John, blacksmith PRIVATE RESIDENTS. .Clarke William Henry, The Cottage <Jowie Rev. Arthur Thomas Carnsew M.A. Vicarage Cripps Thomas ,Poulton Rev. James Sylvester (Bapt.), Aston house COJIIMERCIAL. Bay lis Pamela (Mrs.), dress maker Beckinsale Jane (Miss), dress maker Clack Charles, shopkeeper <Jlarke Jane (Mrs.), school for training young girls for service Daniels William, saddler Long Gabriel, grocer, Post office Eustace Richard, farmer, brick maker Lord Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer & contracto~ Lord William, farmer Fitchett Albert, boot maker Smith Wm. baker,mealman & corn dlr Fitchett Henry, boot maker Sparrowhawk Edwin, road contractor Fox Ernest, farmer Sparrowhawk Thomas, carrier Fox John,frmr.Church frm.; & atCote Spurrett Joseph Henry, general dealr Glenister William, Red Lion P.H Spurrettl Joseph Hy.jun. The Bull P.H Green Frederick, registrar of births & Townsend ..A.lbert Lindsey, farmer, deaths & relieving & vaccination & Duckend farm school attendanc-e officer for the Waite William, farmer Bampton district, Witney union Wallis Vincent, farmer, New Farm ho Greem. Louis.a. Fra.nc61S (Miss), school White Thomas, farmer, Manor farm

DIRECTORY. J OXFORDSHIRE. EANBURY. 21 BRIGHTH ,\."\£PTO N. CHIM::\TEY. CO:!IIMERCllL. Woodbridge & Bartlett, farmers COTE. Barnes John, shopkeeper Florey Mark, farmer Hemrnings Edwin, farmer Eu.stace Harry, farmer & assist. oversr Long Laban, wheelwright Lord George, farmer Luckett Thomas, farmer Luckett William, farmer Shepherd J oseph, beer ret. & shopkpr SHIFFORD. Johnson .Arthur, miller (water),Under- Fox John, farmer; & at .Aston down mill Gillett Edward, farmer, Cote hoUJse Buswell Edward, farm bailiff to .A. Townsend Edwin Lindsey, farmer Long William, wheelwright Harcourt esq HAMPTON LEW is an ecclesiastical parish formed held since 1887 by the Rev. Joseph Jackson B..A. of Dec. 3oth, 1845, from the civil parish of Bampton, 1! miles Trinity College, Dublin. The principal landowners are. east from Bampton station on the Oxford and Fairford Henry Bruce .Arnaud esq. M . .A., J.P. of 135 Ebury branch of the Great ·western railway, 2~ north-east street, London SW, the University of Oxford and the from Bampton and 4 south from Witney, in the Mid Rev. Henry .Arthur Morgan D.D. master of Jesus Coldivision of the county, hundred of Bampton, petty ses- lege, Cambridge. The soil is clay; subsoil, clay. The. sional division of Bampton East, union and county court chief crops are the usual cereals. The area is 1,547 district of Witney, rural deanery of Witney and arch- acres; rateable value, £r,4oo; the population in 1891 deaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of the was I 19. Holy Trinity, erected in 1842, is a plain building of Sexton Henry Cooper stone, consisting of chancel and nave and on the south ' · side a tower .with spire containing one bell: there are Post Office, Lew.-Mrs. .Ann Hollis, sub-post,mistress. 100 sittings. The register dates from the year 1s42. Letters through Faringdon arrive at 5.20 a.m.; disThe living is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge £roo, average patched at 7·40 p.m. week days only. The nearest £ 76, net income £ro8, with residence at Bampton and money order & te~egraph office is at Bampton ~18 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter Parochial School (mixed), for so children; average atof Exeter, but pro hac vice the Bishop of Oxford, and tendance, 30; Mrs. Charlotte Packer, mistress COMMERCIAL. Haynes Henry, farmer, University :frm Smith John, :farmer Brooks Joseph, farmer Packer John, wheelwright Spencer Edwd.Fowler,frmr.M:anor frm Dark Richard Heydon, :farmer Saunders Ernest, farmer BAN BURY. BANBURY (A. S. Baranbyrig) is a municipal borough, passing of the "Municipal Corporations .Act, 1835" (5 market and union town, head of a petty sessional divi- ani 6 Wm. IV. c. 76). &ion and county court district, in a deep valley near the The corporation now consists of the mayor, 6 aldernorthern part of Oxfordshire, on the river Cherwell men and 18 councillors. The borough has a commission which here divides this county from Northamptonshire, of the peace and a separate court of quarter sessions,_ 77 miles by rail from London, 23 north from Oxford, presided over by a Recorder. The present municipal 17 north-west from Buckingham, 28 from Northampton, borough includes the township of Neithrop and the 15 north from Bicester, 21 from Stratford-on-Avon, g8 hamlets of Grimsbury and Nethercote, in the parish of from Br1stol, 43 from Birmingham and 136 from Liver- 'Yarkworth, lying on the eastern side of the Cherwell,. pool, ~n the Northern division of the county, hundred and originally in Northamptonshire, but b·ansferred t() and union of its own name, rural deanery of Dedding- Oxfordshire 1889. ton, archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The town con- The church of St. Mary, anciently collegiate, is a sist& of several good streets ; it is abundantly supplied I modern edifice of stone in a Classical style, the erection with good wat-er obtained from the river Cherwell fil- l of which was begun under the authority of an .Act of tered at the works of the company at Grimsbury: the , Parliament in 1793, and was sufficiently completed for use town is lighted with gas by the Banbury Gas Company, in 1797; but the work was not entirely finished until formed in 1833, whose works are at Grimsbury. Ban- 1822: the old church, a fine cruciform edifice of the bury is the terminus of the Buckinghamshire branch Perpendicular period, with a central embattled tower of the London and North Western line, which joins the terminating in eight crocketed pinnacles, and containing Oxford branch at Verney Junction, 21! miles from Ban- 8 bells, was destroyed in 1792; and the massive fabric, bury, and is thereby connected with the main line at I after much trouble, had eventually to be destroyed by Bletchley, 10 miles farther on: this branch was opened 1 means of gunpowder. The present church consists of to Banbury, May r, 185o. The Northampton and Ban- · a square of go feet, with twelve composite columns bury Junction also runs in here from Blisworth, joining I cutting off an aisle on every side al}d supporting a the London and North Western line from Bletchley at shallow-domed circular ceiling- in the centre; eacb Cockley Brake Junction, 5 miles from Banbury: the aisle consists of five bays, separated from the body of Great Western railway, which also has a station here on _ the church by columns of red Warwickshire sandstone the Oxford and Birmingham branch, was opened t-o [ ·with capitals of terra-cotta ; the aisles are vaulted in Banbury in 1852 : the construction of the Banbury and plaster and a gallery surround& the int-erior on three Cheltenham District Direct railway was completed and ! sides : the interior of the chancel, originally forming a the line opened in April, r887; the Oxford and Birming- 1 square of about 28 feet, has been remodelled and is ham canal also passes through the town, connecting it now apsidal, the former chancel arch being removed and with the Thames: there are several wharves and a dock a new roof, connected with that of the nave, constructed: for building and repairing barges. the choir has been brought out into the nave and :Banbury returned one member to Parliament from separated by a low stone and marble wall, according the reign of Queen Mary, until the passing of the to the Basilican arrangement ; the choir stalls are of "Redistribution of Seats .Act, 1885" (48 and 49 Vict. oak, handsomely carved: the wall of the apse is divided c. 23), when the representation of the borough was into three spaces by fluted pilasters of the Composite merged into that of the county. order ; these inclose life-size figures of the Twelve The municipal borough was incorporated by a charter .Apostles, with examples of scripture trees the palm, of Queen Mary, dated' 26th Jan. 1554, and appointing the the olive, the apple and the fig-rising behind them, election of a bailiff and 12 aldermen; this charter was the whole being exquisitely painted in colour on a gold confirmed and the privileges of the corporation increased ground; while the frankincense, :roses, and oak of by James I. 28th June, r6o8, who granted the right of Mamre (.Abraham's oak) are introduced in the panels; electing a mayor: these charters, however, were sur- over all runs a broad frieze of grapes and vine foliage rendered to the Crown in r683, and another charter with texts; the ceiling of the apse is coloured a turwas granted by Charles II. enlarging the jurisdiction of quoise blue powdered with gold &tars, representing th& the borough, but the surrender not having been en- firmament ; the remaining spaces of the side walls and rolled, the corporation resumed them under a procla- the lunette window& are occupied by figures of the four mation of James II. 25 October, 1688; in 1717, the .Archangels bearing scrolls; the semidome is occupied charter of James I. was forfeited in consequence of by a. large figure of Our Lord in majesty, while fourpolitical disturbances, but on a petition of the inhabi- and-twenty el-ders appear at his feet with the signs of tants, George I. granted them a new charter, dated thl'l four Evangelists, and the seven lamps; th& 16th July, 1718, which remained in force until the whole composition is inte!lded to illustrate Rev. chap.

22 :BANBOBY, OXFORDSHIRE. (KELLY'S iv. and was executed under the direction of Sir A. W. :Blomfield M . .A., A.R.A., F.S.A.: all the windows of the church are .stained and three are memorials : there is a monument of granite and marble in the north aisle t() .Anne, wife of Bernard Broca.s esq. 1824, with a sitting figure of marble of a female bearing a cross, and the arms of Brocas and Pigott ; in the south aisle is a monument of similar character to the Pigott family 17go-r82o: the former altar-piece, a large painting of a dead Christ, with a Virgin and ()ther attendants, is now on the south of the choir facing west: the pulpit, designed by Sir A. Blomfield, was presented by A. B. Field esq. in memory of his father: in 1894 a brass was placed on the base of a pillar in the church t{) Emily, wife of the present vicar, who died 3 Feb. r8g4, and in memory of whom an altar cross and silver alms dish have been given to the church by the parishioners: ths font is a square basin of white marble, panelled with coloured marbles and .supported on variegated shafts : there is a carved oak eagle lectern, and a fine organ with 38 stops, opened in 1859: the exterior of the building is rusticated and has at the west end a spacious semicircular portico supported by columns of the Tuscan {)tder : above this rise4S, in three diminishing stagt)s, a circular tower; the second stage is surrounded by Ionic columns, supporting a balustrading; the upper stage terminates in a dome with vaue ; the tower contains a clock and 8 bells (some of which hung in the tower of the old church) and has a total height of I33 feet: the communion plate includes four chalices of ~lver, one of which has a cover and is dated I575, two '1ver flagons given by M. Cope esq. in 1723, four silver .tllvers, presented by Mary Longe in I827, and some -'ther vessels: the church was restored in 1876 at a cost of £8,ooo, and in 188o the tower was restored or rebuilt, at a cost of £1,250, there are now sittings for 2,300 persons, including soo free seats and ISO sittings for the school children. The register dates from the year 1558. The living is a vicarage, with the chapelry of Neithrop annexed, tithe rent-charge £56, average £43, gross yearly value £287, with residence and [120 for curate, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held ·since 1881 by the Rev. Charles Fleetwood Porter M.A. of Caius College, Cambridge, and surrogate. South :Banbury is an ecclesiastical parish formed January 2oth, 1846, out of the parishes of Banbury and Warkworth, Northamptonshire. Christ Church, erected in 1853 from designs by Mr. Benjamin Ferry, architect, is an elegant structure of Bletchingdon stone with freestone dressings, in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, sracristy, south porch and a tall pinnacled tower on the north side, added in 188o : there are small galleries at the west end of the church running entirely across the building: the sta.ined east window was erected by voluntary subscriptions as a memorial to H.R.H. the late Prince Consort, d. 14 Dec. r86r, and there are other memorial windows in the chancel and aisles, erected by JYI.r. Albert Kimberley, Mr. Henry Ware, Mr. J. Fortescue, Miss .Alien and Mrs·. A. Kimberley, besides two commemorating the Rev. Charlea Forbes, first vicar of this parish, and the Rev. J. D. Fish, a. former curate: the church was renovated in 1888 at a cost of nearly £300; a Caen stone reredos was given by the vicar : there Me 944 sittings, of which 694 are free. The register dates from the year 1853· The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-cliarge £14, net yearly value £303, with residence and 4 acres of glebe and £ I20 for curate, in the gift of the :Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1883 by the Rev. Charles Edward Graham-Jones M.A. of Queen's College, Oxford. St. Paul's, Neithrop, a chapel of ease to the parish church, is a building of stone, consisting of chancel, ])ave of four bays, north aisle, vestry, organ chamber, south porch, and a turret over the western entrance containing one bell: the east and west windows are stained, and there are four smaller stained windows in the chancel: the church affords 400 sittings. The Catholic church, dedicated to St. John, in Sonth :Bar street, was completed in 1838, from designs by A. Welby Pugin, it is built entirely of freestone and oonsists of embattled chancel with Decorated windows, nave, and an embattled western tower of four stages with heavy crocketed pinnacles and containing a clock : there are three stained windows at the east end: the west front is adorned with canopied niches, beneath the church. is a. crypt, in which some relics of old Banbnry church are now preserved and including a stone carved crucifix : the church affords 350 sittings : attached is a. presbytery, and in the garden, on the south side of the church, is a crol5s with floriated head rising from a pedestal on three steps. The Wesleyan chapel, Marlborough road, erected in I864-5, a.t a cost of [7,ooo, and opened May gth, I865, by the Rev. Dr. Waddy, is of Brackley stone, with Bath stone dressings in the Early Decorated style, from designs by Mr. George Woodhouse, architect, of Boltonle-Moors, and has a light octagonal tower and: . spire, and sittings• for about 1,200 persons, of which 430 are free. .Adjoining are Sunday schools, erected in 1882. The Congregational church in South Bar street, erected in 1857, and restored and decorated in I88I, at a cost of £4oo, is in a modern Classic style, and will seat about 6oo persons. Behind the chapel is a lecture room and school room; the latter, for Sunday school purposes, is readily divided by moveable partitions into 17 separate compartments, for the cl.assification of about 200 children. The English Presbyterian chapel, in the Horsefair, opposite St. Mary's church, is a structure in the Early English style, and was built on the old site in 1850: there are 300 sittings. The Baptist chapel, in Bridge street, erected in 184r, is a plain building adorned in front with six columns of the Grecian Ionic order; it will seat about 400 persons and has schoolrooms in the rear erected in 1858, at a cost of upwards of £2oo, and capable of holding about 300 cildren. The Primitive Methodist chapel in Church lane, formerly a Wesleyan chapel, seats about 6oo. The Calvinistic chapel, in Dashwood road, will seat 180 persons; the meeting house of the Society of Friends, in the Horsefair, seats about 300 persons; the " Brethren" hold their services in the Temperance Hall; and the " Disciples of Christ " have also a place of worship. The Cemetery, containing about 3~ acres, is on the Soutbam road' north of the town; there are mortuary chapels, erected in r86o, for the Church of England and Nonconformists ; it is under the control of the . Town Council acting as a Burial Board. The Town Hall, erected in 1854, at a cost of [5,737, stands in the centre Qf the market place and is a. rectangular building of stone in the Gothic style of the 15th century, with an octagonal battlemented tower on its eastern front, the base of which contains the principal entrance, from within the parapet rises a kind of spire, in which is a clock: on the first floor is the Common Hall, 6o by 34 feet, approached by a stone st~ircase in the tower; and seating, for the purposes of public assemblies, 6oo persons; in the hall are portraits of Henry William Tancred esq. for 25 years M.P. for the borough 1833-57; the late V en. Lord Saye and Sele, d. 26 May, 1887, and Mr. Draper, a former mayor; the building also contains a retiring room for the magistrates and recorder, and a council chamber; on the ground floor, beside the Boroug-h Police station, are six cells for prisoners. The general quarter sessions and borough magistrates' meetings are held at the Town Hall, the latter in petty session~ every Monday. at ro a.m. The County Court is also held here monthly. The municipal insignia in0ludb. a mace, mayor's chain and badge and a. common seal. The earliel!-t mace, of silver gilt, was purchased or made for the Corporation, on the granting of the original charter in 1554, and in 165 I this mace was repaired and a. new mace bought at a total cost of between £30 and £40; this new mace was of course a Commonwealth mace, aud had all the peculiarities of design and ornament which distinguish the maces of that period; but at the Restoration in 166o, it was converted into a royal mace. In or about I7I5·I6, a third mace was made, but this, as well as the Restoration mace was sold in 1832 to the ~orth fa.mily, barons North, of Wroxton .Abbey, and the Corporation was without any mace until 1875, in which year the late Col. J. S. North M.P. and Lady North entertained the Corporation at Wroxton and presented them with the earlier or "Restorat<ion" mace. This is 3 feet in length, the shaft being chased throughout, and divided by gadrooned bands into three section~; on the foot knop are three cartouches, bearing respectively the Crosg~ of St. George, the harp, and the arms of the borough ; scrolled brackets support the head, the surface of which is divided by -caryatides and foliaged arches into four compartments, containing the royal badges betwoon the letters C.R. ; on the flat top are the royal arms of the Stuarts ; a. circulet ,gurrounds it and above this an open arched crown, surmounted by an orb and cross; the shaft and head date from 1651, but the other portions and all the regal emblems are the result of alterations made in 166o. The other :waoo, still at

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. BANBURY. 23 Wroxton, is that made in 1715-It;; it is of silver gilt, 3 still made in large quantities, and sent to all parts o£ foot r£ inches in length and of the usual design, with the kingdom. crowned head, bearing the royal arms of George L and Adjoining the Oxford road are extensive nurseries, and on the foot knop, those of the borough, and th~ cypher rhubarb is cultivated and prepared in this neighbourG.R. The mayor's gold chain and badge were presented hood, in considerable quantities, for medicinal purposes. in July, rBJS, by John Phillips Barford esq. mayor and Banbury is the head quarters of the A Troop of the William Rusher esq. alderman. The common seal, Oxfordshire (Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars) Yeo- -which probably dates from 1584, is circular in shape, manry Cavalry, and the C company, 2nd Volunteer :and of silver; it bears the borough arms-az. the sun Battalion, Oxfordshire Light Infantry. in splendour, or-and two scrolls, on one of which is 'l'he Horton Infirmary in the Oxford road was founded 1he motto "Dominvs Nobis Sol et Scvtvm." An earlier in June, r869, by the late Miss Horton, of Middleton seal was existing in 1574, but iS' now missing, it bore Cheney, and of Highbury, London, and was intended .a. branching vine, below which were the letters B. A. by her to be a gift to the town of Banbury; her death "The Corporation also possesses a two-handled silver in July, 1869, temporarily retarded the building operaloving cnp given by B. Samuelson esq. 9 Nov. r871, tions, but the work was resumed in February, 187o, and two silver punch bowls, dating from 1734-5. and completed in 1872 by her great-nephew, J. H. The Cornhill Exchange, in the Market place, erected Horton esq. The Infirmary, which stands in its own in 1857, has a. good stone frontage with eight coupled grounds, is constructed of red brick with black bands pillars of the Corinthian order supporting a pediment, and Bath stone dressings, in the Domestic Gothic style, surmounted by a statue; on either side are shallow wings from the designs of Mr. Charles H. Driver, architect, with frieze and a balustrading reliBved by ornamental of London, and was erected at a total cost of over urns, the building is the property of Mr. J. P. Barford, £6,ooo; it consists of a centre block with lofty tower, it has a theatrical licence, and is let for all kinds of containing the executive portion of the establishment, meetings and entertainments. The Corn Market is and two wings, in which are the wards for male and >Open from 12 to 3 o'clock on Thursday. The Ex- female patients respectively, arranged on the Pavilion change Hall, also in the Market place, and belonging to system, and contains 32 beds: with the exception of Mr. T. "\V. Boss, is spacious and is chiefly used for the kitchen, and bedrooms for the surgeon and matron, theatrical and other entertainments. the whole of this hospital is on the ground floor; in The Temperance Hall, in Bridge street, erected in the tympanum, over the windows of the wards, are 1876 at a cost of £4,5oo, is of brick with Bath stone carved the arms of the Horton family and the mono- ·dressings, and contains a large hall, constructed to hold ~rams of the late Miss Horton and J. H. Horton esq. soo persons, with coffee rooms, lodge rooms and suit- combined. The grounds are laid out as a garden for -ab~e offices. the use of the patients. The Post office is in the High street. There are numerous charitable institutions within The County Police Station in the Newland, built in tbe borough, supported by voluntary contributions, Yiz., 1 862, is used for the magistrates' petty sessions for the the Old Charitable Society, ior the relief of indigent ·district, which are he:d here every alternate Thursday; townsmen; the Charitable Society, for visiting and re·· it also includes dwellings for a superintendent and one liering the sick distressed poor at their own habita- -constable. tions, and two Clothing Clubs. Adjoining St. Mary's 'l'he Young Women's Help Society occupies premises churchyard are six almshouses for 12 aged and im- ·in Church passage, on the north ~lide of the High street, potent poor, who are nominated by the charity trustees. the society is under the direction of the vicar of St. The Countess of Arran's charity now produces about b h · £65 yearly for apprenticing, and J. Metcalfe's £5 Mary's and the mem ers meet here t ree evemngs a 1 f th th B ·d E t t · ld _ k year y or e same purpose; e n ge s a e pe s wee h. . . £97 yearly, for public uses and there are other chariT ~ Banbury Institute, erected m I884, at the C?st 1 ties providing £8o yearly for distribution in bread and "<>f Sll' Bernhard Samuel~on bart. M.P. and by J;nm 1 clothing, and £IS 108. for distribution in money. pr~sented . to the, .town, 1s a structure o~ red bnck, St. John' 8 Priory, South Bar street, was founded in relieved with dr~s~mgs of blue grey sto_ne, m th~ Tudor r8so for the Catholic order of Sisters of Charity of St. ~Style, from desi~!' .bY ~r. W. E. Mills~ arc~ltect, of 1 Paul, who visit the sick and maintain a hoarding school, :Banbnry; the bmldmg lS t~ree s.tore3:"s m height and I as well as Public Elementary schools. The central ba.s on. the. ground ~o?r a Clrculatmg hbrary and refer- house and noviciate has been removed to Selly Oak, ilnce library, contammg upwar~s of ~o,ooo volumes, ne::tr l3irmingham. The convent forms a portion of the and on the first floor a pubhc readmg-room, chess original building of the Priory of St. John the Baptist, room, and two other large. rooms. . . which existed here as early as 12og, and was founded Three ne":~papers are prmt.ed .~nd pub!..ished .m Ban- by the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem. bury; t~ Banbury Guardian, established m 1838, The Ban bury Recreation Ground and Bathing Cornthe "B~n~ury Advertiser," !n 1854, and ~he '~ Banb~ry p:1ny Limited was established in 1867, with a capital of ?Jeac~n, m 186o, ~ach ha:vmg an ~xtenslVe cuculatwn £ 2,500, in 2,soo shares of £ 1 each; a swimming bath m this a~d the ne1gh~ourmg c~unhes. . . was opened in May, 1868, which was taken over by T~e chief hotels, which are 3;-'so commercial .mns .and the Corporation in June, 1888. • postu~g ho.uses, are the Red Lwn and the ~te .L;10n, The Cross, at the top of High street, near to the both m ~1gh street, the former has a .spa?wus blllia.rd site of "Old Banbury Cross," was erected in 1859 from room With three tables, and each mru.ntams a serVIce a design by Mr. John Gibbs, architect, of Oxford: it is of flys and omnibuses meeting_ eve;y train; there are hexagonal in form and 52 feet in height, and is divided also several other good hotels and mns. . into three stages, the whole being elevated on a flight A weekly marke.t for cattle, sheep and horses IS held of six steps : the panels of the central portion are rich1y "'D Thursday; fairs are held every alternate Thurs- carved with foliage, and inclose the ~mblazoned arms <day, on t~e first Thu~sday after Old Twe_lfth day (the of Banbury, those of the late Emperor Frederick Ill. horse fair commencmg on the preceding Monday), of Germany, K.G. and the Empress (Princess Royal of on the first Thursday after Old Michaelmas day, statute England'), in co=emoration of whose marriage (25 '(for hiring servants) (holiday fair), and on the second Jan. 1858) it was er~:~cted, and Charles I. and Heorge Th1 trsday before Christmas; a horse fair is also held I. Queen Mary, H. M. Queen Victoria, the Earls of on the third Thursday in September. Banbury and Guildford, Viscount Saye and Sele, Sir There are branches here of the London and County William Cope, Sir William Compton, the Bishop of l.lanking Company Lim., established here in 1845; the Lincoln and of the Rev. William Whateley M.A. vicar Metropolitan (of England and Wales) Bank Lim., and of Banbury r6I0-39· the Bucks and Oxon Union Bank, besides a Savings Of the ancient Castle of Banbury, -erected about II25, Bank, established in 1818, and a Penny Bank. There by Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln, part of the walls ol are 1several brewerie!3 and the extensive agricultural irn- the north side, with some vestiges of a stone staircase, plement works of Messrs. Samuelson and Co. Limited. still remain; it was once a fortress of great strength 'The manufacture of shag and plush, made from and sustained two severe sieges in 1442 and 1444, during goats' hair, furnishes employment here to about Ioo the war between the houses of York and Lancaster; persons, the making of roller webs, summer horse at the beginning of the Civil war it was strengthened £lothing, rick sheets, sacking, rope, and tents, is also with new bastions, and held for the Parliament, but actively prosecuted, and brewing and malting, girth on the 27th Oct. 1642, being attacked by the Royal weaving, brick and tile making and woolstapling, and army, surrendered without a blow; the town was the building of carriages and perambulators, are also twice fired by the Royalists in 1643-4, and in 1644 was carried on, and on the river Cherwell are corn mills; hotly besieged by the Parliamentary forces, when an but that for which Banbury is chiefly famous, and which attempt was made to storm the castle, which, however, has given it a national reputation, is its delicious and was rdieved by the Royalists on 26th Oct. 1644: it inimitable cakes, first introduced in x6o8, which are was again besieged in 1646 by Colonel Whalley, and

24 B.ANBURY. OXFORDSHIRE. (KELLY.S was finally surrendered by the governor, Sir William Compton, May 8, 1646; the town had originally five bars or gates, three of which existed till the last century. A number of ancient timbered houses, with elaborately carved barge boards and pargetting, still remain, among which one in the High street may be especially noted; this house has projecting semicircular windows, an overhanging cornice, and triple gables, and on the front an old-fashioned sun-dial, with the motto "Aspice et abi," and the date 16oo; the gateway of the "Old George" inn bears the date 1614, and the vicarage porch that of 1649; the Reindeer inn, in Parsons street, is entered by a pair of venerable gates dated 1570, and other parts of the house have the dates 1624 and 1637; both the Reindeer inn and the houses in High street retain some fine panelled and wainscoted chambers. A calamitous fire devastated the town on Sunday, March 2nd, 1628, and destroyed at least one-third of it. Coins of various Roman emperors have been discovered here, and in a field called " Bear Garden," near the town, are the remains of a camp-like amphitheatre. Danes More, s! miles north-east, was the scene of an engagement between the Saxons and Danes, and later of a battle fought 26 July, 1469, between the royal army under Sir William Herbert kt. 1st Earl of Pembroke, and a parliamentary force led by Richard Nevill, Earl of Warwick K.G. popularly known as the "Kingmaker,"• in which the roya,l forces were defeated. William Knollys, of Grey's Court, Treasurer of the Household to Queen Elizabeth, Viscount Wallingford and Baron Knollys of Rotherfield Greys, was created Earl of Banbury by Charles I. Aug. 18, 1626, and was High S'teward of Banbury until his decease, May 25, 1632, at the house of his physician, Dr. Grant, in Paternoster row; he was buried at Rotherfield Greys. In consequence of doubts mised in the House of Lords as to the legitimacy of Nicholas, 3rd Earl, these titles, though affirmed by the Court of King's Bench in 1694 and stiU claim.ed, have not been assumed since 1813; the late Rt. Hon. Sir William Thomas Knollys K.C.B. Usher of the Black Rod, who died Jan. 23, 1883, was de jure gth Earl of Banbury, and the title is now claimed by his son, Lieut.-Col. William Wallingford Knollys, 93rd Highlanders. Wykham Park is the residence of William Mewburn esq. J.P., D.L. The country around is fertile and most beautifully varied; it comprises some of the finest portions of arable and pasture land in the county, being the rich red and sandy loam. The parish of Banbury compriseS' the townships of Banbury and Neithrop; in 1891 the entire population of the parish was 12,768. The municipal borough comprise8 Banbury township, Neithrop and Grimshury and N ethercote; area 4,633 acres ; rateable value, £s6, 123. The population of the extended Municipal Borough of Baubury in 1891 was:- Population. - - Area. Banbury Township ................... 3,639····················· So NP.ithrop Township .................. 6,153 ..................... 3,327 Griwsbury and Nethercote ........ 3,o3z ...... -........ -..... 1,226 --- 12,768 4,633 The population of the ecclesiastical parish of St. Mary in 1891 was s.Bs6, and of Christ Church, South Banbury, 6,912. Neithrop (i.e. Netherthorp), a township, fo1:ms par\ of the parish, within the municipal limits, and adjoins t.he town on tho Oxfordshire side of the river Charwell. Its area inclu<ies 3,301 acres of land and 26 oi water; rateable value, [23,804. Calthorpe and Easington adjoin the town on the south. Wykeham, 2 miles south, and Hardwick, one north, are hamlets of the parish of Banbury. Verger, St. M<J.ry's, A. H. Macklin, 16 Castl.~ st. east OLD and NEW GRIMSBURY are hamlets amalgamated with the parish of Bodicote, Oxfordshire-, March 25, 1884, and are ecclesiastically annexed with Nethercote to South Banbury: New Grimsbury has arisen since 185o, and now contains the major part o' the inhabitants. These hamlets extend from Banbury along the valley from the bridge over the Cherwell, and are now, with Nethercote and the western part of Warkworth, Northamptonshire, transferred to thtt county of Oxford as from April x, 1889, for all purposes except Parliamentary representation, and form part of the municipal borough of Banbury as from Nov. g, 188g. The Banbury stations of the Great West ern and London and North W astern railways, and the works of the Banbury Gas and Water Companies are within these hamlets. St. Leonard's., a chapel of ease to Christ Church, erected in 1890-91 from designs by Mr. W. E. Mills A.R.I.B.A. at a cost of [3,070, is a building of Broughton stone, with Bath stone dressings, in the Early English and Decorated styles, and_ consists of chancel, nave, ais,les, organ chamber, vestries, narthex or western porch, south porch and a bell turret: the church affords 350 sittings. There is also a Wesleyan chapel and schools. The Banbury Sewaga Farm is in this parish. OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS, LOCAL INSTITUTIONS &c. Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity & Insurance Office, 49 High street; J. Davenport, postmaster Dispatches.-Week days. Local Country posts & first delivery in Banbury, S-4S a.m. ; Aynho, Charlton, Fritwell, Heyford, King's Sutton, Somerton, Souldern & Steeple Aston, 7·5 a.m.; London, East & North of England, 7.30 a.m.; Abingdon, Bath, Chipping Norton, Deddington, Enstone, Moreton-in-Marsh, Newbury, Oxford, Reading, Thame, Wantage, Windsor & Woodstock, 8 a.m.; Birmingham ,& the North, Bristol, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Worcester, Leamington, Coventry, Stratfordon-.Avon & Warwick, 8.50 a.m. ; London, Bletchley, East & South of England, 9.20 a.m.; second delivery in Banbury, Adderbury, Bodicote, Aynho, Soulrlern, King's Sntton, Newbottle & Charlton, 10 a.m.; Oxford & Bath, 1r.5 a.m.; Birmingham, Leamington, Warwick, :Bristol, Cheltenham, Coventry, Derby, Dudley, Gloucester, Leicester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Shrewsbury, Tamworth, Walsall, Wednesbury, West Bromwich, Wolverhampton .& Worcester, II-55 a.m. ; London, Oxford, East & South of England, 12.50 p.m.; Middleton Cheney, Overthorpe, Warkworth, Chipping Warden, Edgcote, Wardington & Williamscote, 12.50 p.m. ; London, East & South of England, 2.25 p.m. ; Heyford & Somerton, 2.25 p.m. ; Leamington & Warwick, 3 p.m.; third delivery in Banbury, 2.25 p.m. ; Adderbury, Bloxham, Deddington & Milton, 3.40 p.m.; Bletchley, Brackley, Cambridge & East of England, 4.25 p.m. ; Oxford, 4-25 p.m.; fourth delivery in Banbury, 6.20 p.m.; East & South of England, Shrewsbury, Stafford, N. Wales, Manchester, Liverpool, Ireland, N. W. of England & Scotland, 7 p.m.; West of England & South Wales, 7.40 p.m.; London, Bletchley, East & South of England, 7.40 p.m. ; London, Oxford, Birmingham, Bromsgrove, Droitwitch, Worcester, Evesham, Pershore, 'Tewkesbury. Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol,. Bath, Derby, Nottingham, Lincoln & North East of England, 8.15* p.rn Sundays.-North & West of England, Scotland & Ireland, 6.20 p.m.; London, Oxford, East & South of England, 7.30 p.m * Or over public counter with ·extra !d. stamp to8.30 p.m Town Deliveries. From London & all parts, by letter carriers, & to callers, begins at 7 a.m.; London, Oxford, East & West of England, by letter carriers ·& to callers, begins at 10.20 a.m.; London & neighbourhood of Bletchley,. Oxford, Birmingham, Leamington Spa & Warwick, by letter carriers & to callers, begins at 2.30 p.m.; London, Oxford, Leamington & Birmingham, by letter carriers & to callers, begins at 6.45 p.m On sunday there is one dehvery only by letter carriers .. commencing at 7 a.m. ; & on that day callers' letters are delivered at the office counter from 7 a.m. to. Io a.m Money orders are isued & paid & savings bank, an-- nuity & insurance business transacted & inland re-· venue licences issued from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. & on. sat. from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m Telegraph office open from 7 a.m. till 9 p.m. on. week. days & from 7 a.m. tiU 10 a.m. on snndays Sub-Office, Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & .Annuity & Insurance Office, Bridge bank, Grimsbury.-Exors. of Charles Phillips, sub-postmaster. Letters dispatch4il<i at 8.30 a.m. 12.20 & 2, 3, 5·35. 6.30 & 7·45 pm

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. BANBURY. 25 Warwick Road sub-Office.-.A. W. .Askew, sub-postmaster.-Open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. week days only. Letters dispatched at 8.30 a.m. 12.20 & 2, 3, 5.30, 6.30 & 7·45 p.m Pillar & Wall Letter Boxes Cleared Bridge Street piHar box, 5.15 & 8.30 a.m.; 12.20, 2, 3, 5·45, 6.30 .& 7· 45 p.m. ; sundays, 5.15 p.m. ; G. W. Railway Station wall box, 5· 15 & 8.30 a. m. ; 12:2o, 2, 3, 5·45, 6.30 & 7·45 p.m. Grimsbury wall box, 5.15 & 8.30 a.m.; 12.20, 2, 3, 5·35, 6.30 & 7·45 p.m.; sundays, 5.15 p.m. Market Place pillar- box, 5.50 & 8.30 a.m.; 12.20, 2, 3, 5·45• 6.30 & 7·45 p.m. Broughton Terrace pillar box, s.xs & 8.30 a.m.; 12.20, 2, 3, 6, 6.30 & 7·45 p.m. Neithrop wall box, 5.15 & 8.30 a.m.; 12.20, 2, 5·45, 6.30 & 7·45 p.m.; sundays, 5.15 p.m. South Bar wall box, 5.15 & 8,30 a.m.; 12.20, 2, 3, 6.15, 6.3o & 7·45 p.m.; sundays, 515 p.m. North Bar wall box, 5.15 & 8.30 a.m.; 12.20, 2, 3, 5·45• 6.30 & 7·45 p.m. Broad Street wall box, 5.15 & 8.30 a.m.; 12.20, 2, 3, 5·45 6.30 & 7·45 p.m County Magistrates for Banbury & Bloxham Petty Sessional Division. North Lord, Wroxton abbey, Banbury, chairman Saye and Sele Lord D.L. Boughton castle, Banbury Molyneux Lt.-Col. the Hon. Caryl Craven, The Red house, Bodicote, Banbury Cartwright Aubrey Thos. Carter esq. Edgcote, Banbury Cobb Timothy Edward esq. Oxford Leslie-Melville-Cartwright Thomas Robert Brook esq. Newbottle manor, Banbury Loveday Geo. esq. Manor house, Wardington, Banbury Loveday John Edward Taylor esq. Williamscote, near Ban bury Mewburn William esq. D.L. Wykham park, Banbury Norris Major Henry Crawley, Swalcliffe park, Banbury Samuelson Ernest esq. :M.I.C.E. Bodicote Grange, n.mLurv • Starkey John Frederick esq. Bodicote house, Banbury Vanner John esq. Springfields, Banbury Clerk to the Magistrates, Chas. Fortescue, 45 High st Petty Sessions are held at the CPunty police station,Newland, on thursdays at 12 noon The places inc~uded in the Petty Se-ssional Division are : -Adderbury East, Adderbury West, Alkerton, Barford St. John, Bloxham, Bodicote, Bourton Great, Bourton Little, Broughton, Clat'tercote, C:aydon, Cropredy, Drayton, EpweJl, Hanwell, Hor~ey, Horton, Milcombe, Milton, Mollington, Neithrop, North Newington, Prll!Scote, Shenington, 'Shut<ford East, Shutford We~St, Sibford Ferris, Sibford Gower, Swalcliffe, Tadmarton, Wardington & Williamscote, Wiggiruton, Wroxton & Balscote Borough Magistrates. Barford John Phillips, Foscote house Beesley Thomas, 31 West Bar street Doug~as William Thomas, Castle house, Cornhill Edmunds Ri,chard, 11 North Barr tStreet Edmundis William, Dashwood lodge, Dashwood road Field Alfred Benjamin, Grimsbury mill Franey Ed~ward, •II3 Horse fair Gillett Alfred, 2 West Bar street Harloek Jo-hn, The Lawn, S~t. John's road Mainwaring Wil1iam J. West street Malsbury Joseph, The Limes, West Bar street Mawle John, Kmleigh, High Town road Robinson Franci& Thomas, 25 Bridge street Stone Henry, Broughton road Tanner Philip, Chesterton lodge, High Town road Windsor Charles, 6 High street Clerk to the Magri.strates, Charles Fortescue, 45 High st Borough Petty Sessions are held at the Town hall every monday & friday at 10 a.m Corporation. !894-95· High Steward, The Earl of Jersey P.C., G.C.M.G Mayor, Councillor Alfr€d Benjamin Field DepUlty-Mayor, Alderman Thomas Orton Hankinson Recorder, Right HO'Il . .Alexander Staveley Hill P.C., Q.C., D.C.L., M.P. 13 King's Bench walk,Temple,London EO §William Edmunds §John Mawle .Alderme'n. I *John Phillips Barford , *Thomas Orton Hankinson (Two vacancies) Councillors. §William Denchfield §Edward Humphrey Durran §Percy Spencer Edmunds §Alfred Benjamin :Field §William George 1\Ianwaring §Henry Richard Webb tWilliam James Bloxham t Arthur Fairfax tJohn Hyde tWilliam Lake tWilliam Palmar tWilliam Lampet Whitehorn tH ubert Bartlett tJoseph John Chard tWilliam Robert Cooper !Lewis Wycherley Stone tWilliam Tom Wakelin !John Wilks Marked thus § retire in 1895· Marked thus t retire in 1896. Marked thus + retire in 1897. Marked thus * retire in 1898. E'.ective Auditors, Henry Page & George Watson Mayor's Auditor, Alderman J. P. Ba.rford Officers of the Corporation. Town Clerk & ClE;rk to the Borough School Attendance Committee, Oliver James Stockton, 38 High street Coroner & Collector of Quit & Encroachment Rents, Jas. Slteppings Tayton, 22! High street Deputy, Henry Freeman Benn~tt, 46 High street Clerk of the Peace, Daniel Pellatt, 35 High stl'eet Borough TreaJSurer, Charles Gill~tt Medical Officer of Health, Innes Griffin, 31 Crouch street PuJblic Analyslt, William Wa2.te'r Fisher, University museum, Oxford Borough 1Surveyor & Inspector of Nuisances & Canal Boats, Nathaniel Holmes DawrSon, Town hall Borough Police Superintendent, Inspector of Weights 1&1 Measures, Explosives, under P.etroleum Acts, & of Pub· lie Lamps, Daniel Pr~ston, 1Station house, Town hall Borough Accountant, Thomas Edcwin Dobbins Garrett, Town hall School Attendance Officer, Andrew Lovick, Queen's street Veterina.ry Inspector, Charles Naseby M.R.C.V.S. The Green Co'.lector of Allotment Rents, W. F. Coulthard Collector of Rates, Richard Rymill Thomas, 25 High- s1l Collector of Piccage & Stallage, J. W. Prescott Lessee of Sheep Market, J. ,V, Prescott, Horsefair Sergeant-at-Mace, Thomas Ward Bo·ss Hall Keeper, Fredterick Penn Billet Master, Superintend-ent D. Preston Public Establishments. Balllbury District Chamber of Agriculture, Lord Nor:h, president; T. E. C()bb, treasurer; 1V. T. Warner, sec Borough Police Station, Town hall, Bridge street, Daniel Prooton, supt. ; the force consists of I superintendent, 2 sergeants & 9 constables OemeteTy, Southam road, James OEver &tockton, 3·8 High 1street, clPrk tD the burial board ; Frederick Adey,. supt.; T. E. D. Ga-rrett, regjstrar, 25 High street Corn Exchange, Market- place, T. ·w. Boss, keepeT County Court, held monthly at the Town hall, His Honor Thomas Wilhm Snagge- M. A. judge; John Forte-.scue &; Char~es Fortescue, joint registrars; offi:ce, 45 High tstreet; George G-ardner, high bailiff; Fredk. Bates, sub~'bailiff. The distriClt comprises the following parishes in Oxon: Alkerton, Banbury, Barford St. John, Barford St. Michael, Bloxham, Bodicote, Bourton Great & Little, Broughton, Olattercote, C~aydon, Cropredy, Drayton, East Adderbury, East Shutford, Ranwell, Hook Norton, Horley, Hornto'n, ii\Iilcombe, Milton, Mollington, Neithrop, North Newington, Prescote, SheningtDn, Sibfard Ferris, Sibford Gower, South Newington, ISwa~diffe, Tadmarton, Wardington, West .Adderlbury, Wem Shutford, Wigginton & Wroxton; the following in NorthamptolllShire: .Appletree, Aston-le-· Walls, Chalcombe, Chippmg Warden, Edgcote, Grimsbury, Lower Boddington, Middleton Cheney, Nether-· cote, Upper Boddington, Warkworth; & the fol'.owing in Warwickshire: Avon Dassett, Farnborough, Badway, Ratley, Shotteswell & Warmington This court has also bankruptcy jurisdiction, and !or bankruptcy purposes includes, in addition, the County Court Districts of Brackley, Buckingham & Shipston,. Cecil Mercer, acting official receiver Certified Bailiffs appointed under the "Law of Distress Amendment .Act," Frederick Ba.t~s, William Birtle &- Ernest Abbotts, Banbury; Sam Coleman Miller, Higlr •st. Banbury; & Harry Percy Stace, Brackley & llanbury County Police Station, Newland rd. FrancisKeaJ, superintendent; I sergeant & 7 constables Fire Brigade (Volunteer), 18 Horsefair; established 1870; E. J. Crosby, capta.i·n; J. Hawtin & C. Fortescue, lieutenants ; Lieut. C. Fortescue, hon. treasurer; .A. :B. Dunnell, hon. sec. ; J. Prossoer, engineer; the ('ngine & •

26 BAN BURY. OXFORDSHIRE. [KELLY's hose ree1s & fire escape be~onging to the brigade are kept at the Station, r8 Horsefair ; alarms to be given at the Police station, & by ringing the fire bel>l at the engine house; the Neithrop fire engine is kept at Box Hedge Horton Infirmary, Oxford road, C. L. H. Pemberton M.R. 0. '3. Eng., E. Franey M.R. C. S.Eng. & Innes Griffin IM.R.G.S.E. hon. medical officers; Robert Heygate Brooks, hon. surgeon-dentist; Walter Fa,rrar Henley M.R.O.S.Eng., L.'R.G.P.Lond. 'house surgeon; C. H. Davidos, hon. sec.; Miss Elizabeth Gardner, matron Inland Revenue Offices, 19 l\Iar:'borough road, George Oarter, collector, ·Oxford; Wa1ter Thom3Js Edwards, surveyor of taxes ; 1Yil:iam Rakt>, supt>rvisor ; John Patterson, Gfficer; E. M. Moore, Brack"_ey; :F. Lightfoot, Hook Norton; & J. E. Davis, Decl.dington, officers Town Hall, Bridge street, Frederick Pen'n, keeper Yeomanry Oavalry. Oxfordshire (Queen's Own Oxfordshire RuSisars) (A Squadron\ Lieut. Cecil W. Boyle, commsnding Banbury d<etachment; Sergt.-Major iHarry Percy, drill instructor Volunteers. :2nd Volunteer Battalion, ·Oxford,shire Light Infantry (C Company), Carpt. F. 0. Aplin, commandant; O~iv~r Jame.s Stockton & Arthur Stockton, lieuts.; Sergeant A. N. Lovick, drill instructor, Armoury, Town hall Banbury Union. Board day, alternate thursday, at 10 a.m. at the Workhouse, N eithrop. 'The Union compri&es the fo1lowing plac-es, viz. : Alkerton, App~etree (Northampton), Aston-le-Walls (~orthampton), Avon Dassett (Warwick), Banbury, Barford St. John. Barlord St. ~licha-el, Bloxham, Bodicote, Bourton Great & Little, BroughtGD, Chalcombe (Northampton), Chipping 1Varden (Northampton), Clattercote, Claydon, Cropr-edy, Drayton, East Adderbury, Ea.st Shutford, Edgcote (Northampton), Epwell, Farnborough (Warwick), Grimsbury (OXJfordshire), Hanwell, Hook Norton, Horley, Hornton, Lower Bodrlington (N1)Tthampton), M~ddleton Cheney (Xorthampton),Milcombe, }Iilton, Mol:ington, :N eithrop,X e :hercote(N orth- -ampton), ~orth Kewington, Prescot·e, Radway (Warwick), Ratley (Warwick), Shenington, .Shotteswel~(Warwick), Sibford> Ferris, Sibford Gower, South Newing· ton, Swalcliffe, Tadmarton, Upper Boddington (North· ampton), Wardington, 1Yarkworth (Northampton),Warmington (Warwick), West Adderbury, West Shutford, 1Vigginton & Wroxton. The porpu1ation Df the union in r8gr was 29,495 ; area, 78,489 acres; rateable value in r8gr, £r82,972 Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, "\Vm. W. Reming, 47 High street, Eall'bury Treasurer, John Padibury Gillett Relieving & School Inquiry Officers & Collectors to the Guardia-ns, Banbury district, J. H. Banner, Neithrop; lBloxham district, John Bonner, ElDxham; Cropredy district, William Golby, Cropredy; Swalcliffe district, Henry William Huggins, Wroxt.on Vaccination OfficeDs, F. W. Goodway, Banbury; Henry William Huggins, Wroxton; William Golby, Cropredy; John Bonner, l3~oxham Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, Eanbury district, Innes Griffin, 31 Crouch street, Banbury; Bloxham district, J ames Spreut Rolbertso'n, Adder bury; Cropredy district, Herbert George !Shore; Hornton district, Wm. Arthur Shelswell L.!R.C.P.Lond. Shenington; Middleton Cheney district, Reginald Rygate, Wardingt-on; Swalcliffe district, Richard Laycock Routh L.R.C.P. Edin. Sibford Ferris Superint•end-ent Registrar, \Yilliam Waters Heming, 47 High street; deputy, Jame:s L. Baker, 6 South Bar •street, Banbury Registrars of Births & Deaths, Banlbury sub-didrict, J. H. Banner, Neithrop; deputy, Herbert Allen, Neithrop; Bloxham sub-district, John Bonner, Bloxham; deputy, R. C. Rainbow, Bodicote; Cropredy sub-district, John Smith, Bridge street, :Ban bury; deputy, George Srrith, Cropredy; Swalcliffe sub-district, Henry William Huggins, WroxtDn; deputy, John Fox, \Vroxtl()n Registrar for Society of Friends, J. Wells, Sibford Gower Registrar of Marriages, W. H. Haycock, Al'bert street, Banbury; deputy, John Lovell, Bridge street, Banbury The \Vorkhou-se- sta'nds on an -eminence in Neithrop, & will contain about 312 paupers; George Chandler Salmon, mast-er; Rev. James Goodwin B. A. chaplain; William Thomas Douglas, m<>dical officer; Miss A. A. Veary, matrC':!1; Miss E"l.len Mold, schoolmistress School Attendance Committee. Meets at the Workhouse Qn thursday in every month, except Septemlber & October, at 10.30 a.m. Clerk, William Waters Heming, 47 High street, Eanbury Attendance Officers, J-ames Henry 13onner, Neithrop; He'nry William Huggins, Wroxton; William Golby, Cropredy; !John 13onner, Koxham Rural District Council. ~'I:eets at the Workhouse on every alternat-e thursday at n.45 a.m. Clerk, William Waters Heming, 47 High st·reet, Banbury Trea.surer, John Padbury Gillett, Cornhill, Banlbury :Medica~ Offic-er of Health, Edward Fra'ney, 13 Horsefair, Ban bury In~pector of Nuisances, ·w. 0. 'Yhite, Calthorpe street, ~eithrop, Banbury Public Officer:s. Assistant Overseers, Warkworth, William F. Coulthard, Grimsbury; Neithrop, Thomas Stevens, Warwick rd.; Banbury, Richard Rymill Thomas, Town hall Certifying Factory Surgeon, Robert Stanton Wise M.D. I Horsefair Clerk to the Barrbury & Blo'xham Highway :Board, Wm. W. Heming, 47 High street Co~lectors of Poor Rates, Banbury, Richard Rymil~ Thomas, 25 High street; N eithrop, Thomas S tevens. 62 Warwick rDad; Grims.bury & Warkworth, W. F. Coulthard, West street, GrimSJbury Commissioners of Property & Income Tax & Land & Assessed Taxes for the Borough, John P. Barford, T. Beesley, R. Edmunds, John Rarlock, Jos. Mals:bury, 0. Gillett, W. Rartley, W. W. Heming, W. Edmunds, 0. L. H. Pemberton, Henry Stone, P. Tanner, G. Watson & IRobert Stinton Wise; clerk, John Fortescue, 45 High street Commissioners O·f Taxes for Bloxham & Ba'nbury Hundred, T. E. Oobb, Col. Hon. C. C. Molyneux, E. Samuelson, J. F. Starkey, George Loveday & A. T. C. Cartwright; clerk, Oliver James Stockton, 38 High st Deputy Coroner for the Northern District of th~ County, Charles Fortescue, 45 High street Superintendent of County Police, Fraucis Keal, Police station, N ewland road Surveyor of the Highway Board, Richd. Archer, Bourton Trustees of Municipal Charities, H. Stone, C. Gillett, J. P. Barford, J. Rarlock, W. Edmunds I& J. Malsbury; treasurer, T. E. Cobb; clerks, John & F. & C. F. Fortes-cue, 45 High street Places of Worship, with times of services. St. Mary's Parish Church, Rev. Charles Fleetwood Porter M.A. vicar & surrogate; Rev. Herbert G. Elton M. A. & Rev Lawrence E. Arden M. A. curate; holy communion 8 a.m. every sunday; 10.45 a.m. 3 & 6.30 p.m. ; & holy communion on holy days, 8 a.m. ; twice a month also at noon & on the fourth sun. also at 7 a.m.; daily mattins- & evensong at 9.30 a.m. &; 6 p.m. ; wed. & fri. holy days, 10.30 a.m. ; wed. & holy days, 7.30 p.m St. Paul's Chapel of Ease, Neithrop; 10.45 a.m. &; 6.30 p.m Christ Church, South Eanbury, Rev. C. E. GrahamJones ~LA. vicar & surrogate; Rev. John Francis Warren M.A. & Rev. Philip Proctor Goldingham, curates ; 8 & 10.40 a.m. & 6.30 p.m St. Leonard's, Grimsbury,chapel of ease to ChristChurch St. John's Cath-olic, Rev. Charles John Bowen M.R. resident priest & rural dean; 8 & 10.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m. ; holy days, mass 7.30 & 9 a.m. & benediction 7.30 p.m.; daily mass, 7.30 a.m. & thurs. benediction, 7·30 p.m Society of Friends' Meeting House, Horse fair; xo a. m. & 6.30 p.m Baptist, Bridge street, Rev. Isaac Watts; 10.45 a.m. & 6.30 p.m. ; wed. 7·45 p.m Calvinistic, Dash wood road; IO. 30 a.m. & 6.15 p.m. ; fri. 7.15 p.m Congregational, South Bar .;treet, Rev. Henry Cublxm B.A.; 10.45 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; wed. 7.30 p.m Disciples of Christ, Gatteridge st. ; ro. 30 a.m. & 6.15 p.m Primitive Methodist, Church lane, Rev. John William Fish & Rev. John Samuel Buckley; 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m. ; fri. 7 p.m Unitarian, Horse fair, Rev. Henry Hill; xo.go a.m. & 6.30 p.m Wesleyan, Marlborough rd. ro.go Rev. E. Stanley Shela.m. & 6.30 p.m. ; -wed.7.30 p.m. ton, Rev. Jonathan Wesleyan, Westst.Grimsbury,xo.3o Cbapple&Rev.Henry a.m. & 6 p.m.; wed. 7.15 p.m. Wostenbolm Salvation Army Barracks, Fish street, erected in 1889

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. BANBURY. 27 Schools. The l\Iunicipal Technical & Secondary School & Institute, in Marlborough road, was erected in 1893, at a cost of £7,5oo, & is a building of brick with stone dressings, in a Late Gothic style, from designs by Mr. W. E. Mills A.R.I.B.A. ; it is three storeys in height & the frontage is relieved by gables & projecting oriels, & in the upper floor some of the windows are pointed & enriched with tracery; in the basement are carpenters' & smiths' shops & a dark room for photographic work & a heating chamber; the ground floor comprises a head master's room, committee & class rooms & a lecture theatre, 131 by 36 feet, & seating r6o; the first floor is occupied by class-rooms, & on the upper floor are the various rooms belonging to the art section, a chemical laboratory & a photographic room. The school is arranged in three divisions-r, secondary & technical; 2, science & art ; 3, central teachers' division: the first of these is a science day school for boys, in connection with the department at South Kensington, & in the third classes are held in English, French, mathematics & science & art, especially for pupil teachers in the elementary schools of the town, but open to other persons qualified to receive the instruction. Local prizes & scholarships are awarded in competitions in the various stages; free studentships, tenable for one year, are awarded to students, being draughtsmen, designers, modellers or handicraftsmen, who have attended the School of Art regularly for not less than two years & have produced ;satisfactory works in the advanced course; National scholarships, at South Kensington, with an allowance of from 2os. to 40s. a week, are open to competition among advanced students desiring to qualify themselves as designers or industrial artists ; lady students :are eligible to compete for the Gilchrist scholarships; Government scholarships are awarded by the Science .& Art Department annually to deserving & successful students, for the purpose of enabling them to study art in the Continental Ateliers, at South Kensington Museum or at the National Art Training School, London; the Princess of Wales' scholarships, of the value of £25 & £u respectively, are open to competition among female students; artizan students attending the school are eligible to compete for Sir J oseph Whitworth's scholarships for mechanical science, viz. : I of £2oo, 8 of £rso & 16 of £roo; art teachers' & masters' certificates are also awarded to students prepared in the school for various classes of drawing & for admission to the schools of the Royal Academy; full technological certificates are granted by the City and Guilds of London Institute to handicraftsmen who are students attending the classes & who pass in two specified science & art subjects & one technological subject. The school is under the management of the Technical Committee of the Town Council with the assistance of other local gentlemen elected annually Sir Bernhard Samuelson lbart. M.P. president The Rev. C. F. Porter M.A. chairman W. Lampet Whitehorn esq. hon. secretary J oseph Parrish, assistant secretary E. W. Symons M.A. head master secondary & technical division ; J. H. Overton, assistant Seymour H. Beale, science & art master W. Robinson, manual instructor; 0. S. Marshall, music master Science & Art division, Seymour H. Ileale,head master W. E. Mills esq. visiting master for architecture & building construction W. J. Harding, visiting master for plumbers' work & sanitation; Percy E. Gal pin, Urban Bates, John E. Thorpe & Thomas E. Orchard, assistant masters; J. W. Mander, custodian Cherwel'l School for Cookery, built 1890; Miss E. K. W. Oliver, mistress, Britannia road National, Neithrop, established in 1817, for 6oo children; average attendance, 140 boy•s, 103 girls & 165 infants; the school has an income of about £75 a year from the. old Blue Coat school, founded in 17os, & Metcalfe's charity; George. W. Kent, master; Miss A. Bowen, mistress ; :Miss E. G. Luing, infants' mist Christ Church, Middleton road, Grimsbury (mixed), established r861 & enlarged in 1883, for 377 children; average attendance, 320; Lewis Oakley, master; Miss Mary Dumbleton, girls' mistress; Miss Louisa Hatwell, infants' mistress Christ Church Sunday school, parochial & entertainment room was built by subscription in 1884 & will seat about soo persons British, Crouch street, established in 1839, for about 500 children; average attendance, r8o boys, 200 girls & so infants; .Arthur Boulton, master; Mrs. Jane Naseby, mistress; Miss Rosena Dale, infants' mistress Cherwell British (mixed), built in x86r & enlarged in 1892, at the sole cost of Sir Bernhard SamuelS<Jn hart. M.P ., J.P ., F.R.S. for 480 children; average attendance, 300 boys & girls & 180 infants; Edward Bray. master; Miss Prophett, girls' mistress; Miss Proctor, infants' IUistress Catholic (mixed & infants), South Ba.r street, for 300 children; average attendance, u8 & 129; conducted by Sisters of Charity ; Miss Emily Kerley, rst cl. certif. is mistress of the infants' school; also continuation &ehools Wesleyan, Grimsbury (mixed), built in 1871-2 & enlarged in 1876 & 1890, for 480 children; average attendance, 230; James DoiUmett, master; Miss Eliza Wells, infants' mistress Newspapers. Banibury Advertiser, 72 High street, George Walford, proprietor ; published thurs Banbury Beacon, 72 High street, George Walford, proprietor ; published sat Banbury Guardian; office, 51 Parson's street, William Potts, proprietor; published thurs. See advertisement Banbury Telegraph, Market place, Thomas Vaughan, proprietor; published thurs Railway Stations. Great ·western, Frank Hob1ey, station master London & North Western, John Humphries, station IUstr Carriers, with inns they call at & days of departure. There are 166 carriers from the surrounding towns & villages Abthorpe-Kelcher, 'Unicorn,' mon. thurs. & sat Adderbury-Stanton, 'Leather Bottle,' daily; Plackett, ' Coach & Horses,' daily ; Talbot, ' Old George,' thurs Adstone-Kinch, 'Leather Bottle,' man. & thurs .Alkerton-Gardner, 'Reindeer,' mon. thurs. & sat Appletree-Smith, 'Old George,' mon. thurs. & sat. See Prior's Hardwick Ardley-Bennett, ""\Vagon & Horses,' mon. & thurs Arlescote-Capp, 'White Hart,' mon. & thurs Ascot-Tarver, 'Coach & Horses,' thurs. & sat Aston-le-Walls-Cherry, 'Unicorn,' mon. & thurs Astrop-Barber, 'Fox,' daily. See King's Sutton & Charlton Avon Dassett-Cooper, 'Plough,' mon. & thurs Aynho Borton, ' Plough,' mon. thurs. & sat Aynho Wharf-See Deddington Badby-See Daventry Balscote Hawtin, 'Unicorn,' mon. thurs. & sat. ; Wheeler, 'Buck & Bell,' mon. thurs. & sat Barford (Great & Little)-Enoch, 'Bear,' mon. & thurs. ; Tustin, 'White. Hart,' mon. thurs. & sat Barton Hartshorn-See Buckingham Barton Heath-See Whichford Barton (Middle)-Humphris, 'Buck & Ilell,' mon. & thurs.; Edlestone, '"\Yheatsheaf,' thurs.; Jones, see Sanford; Talbot, ' Old George,' thurs Baynard's Green-Bennett 'Wagon & Horses,' mon. & thurs. ; Borton, ' Old George,' thurs Biddlesdon-See Syresham Bicester-Bennett, '"\'Vagon & Horses,' mon. & thurs.; Borton, 'Old George,' thurs. ; Bucks railway Birmingham-Great "\Vestern railway Bishop's Itchington-Bunce, 'Wagon & Horses,' thurs. ; Lloyd, 'Wagon & Horses,' thurs. ; M ann, 'Fox,' thurs. ; Leamington, tues. & fri Blakesley-Kingston, 'Bear,' thurs Bletchington-Boddington, ' Catherine Wheel,' mon. & thurs.; Bennett, '1-Vagon & Horse!>.' mon. & thurs Blisworth-See. Brackley & L. & N. W. R Bloxham-·w oodward, ' Angel,' daily ; Coleman, ' Coach & Horses,' daily Boddingtorr-Hull, 'Catherine '\Vheel,' mon. & thurs. ; Cherry, 'Unicorn,' mon. & thurs.; Mold, 'Catherine Wneel,' mon. & thnrs Bodicote-Tyrrell, 'Leather Bottle,' daily Bourton-Haycock, 'Reindeer,' mon. thurs. Cherry, 'Unicorn,' man. thurs. & sat.; & sat. ; Tasker, 'Flying Horse,' mon. wed. thurs. & sat Brackley-'\Vab;on, 'White Hart,' mon. & thurs.; South, 'Unicorn,' mon. & thurs.; Buckingham, sat.; Blackwell, '1\nite Hart,' mon. & thurs. ; Buckingham, sat Brailes Godson, 'Old George,' mon. & thurs. ; to Shipston, tues. & sat. ; to Stratford, fri. ; Burrows, 'Unicorn,' mon. ; to Shipston, tues. ; to Stratford, fri.; Lyne 'Bear~' thurs. & sat. ; Sims, 'Angel,' thurs

28 BANBURY. OXFORDSHIRE. [ KELLY'S Broughton-See Tadmarton, Sibford & Swalcliffe Buckingham-See Blackwell, Brackley ; & see Charlton Bucknell-Bennett, 'Wagon & Horses,' mon. & thurs Bugbrook-See Morton Pinkney Bnrdrop-See Sibford Burford--See Chipping Norton Bnrton Dassett-Wickham, 'Reindeer,' mon. & thurs.; Leamington, sat. ; Lloyd, 'Wagon & Horses,' mon.&thurs Butler's Marston-Se-e Kineton Byfield-.Allen, 'Bear,' mon. thurs. & sat. ; Smith, '.Angel,' mon. & thurs.; West, 'Leather Bottle,' mou. & thurs.; to Daventry, wed.; to Leamington, sat Camden-See Shipston Canon's Ashby-Kingston, 'Bear,' mon. & thurs Caulcott-Boddington, 'Catherine Wheel,' mon. & thurs Chacombe-Reader, 'Leather Bottle,' m on. wed. thurs.&sat Chadlington-See Charlbury Charlbury-Eeles, 'Buck & Bell,' thurs. ; East Gloucestershire railway Charlton-by-Newbottle-Critcher, 'Catherine Wheel,' thurs. & sat. ; through King's Sutton & Astrop Charwelton-See Byfield Cheltenham-See Chipping Norton Cherrington-Jarrett, 'Plough,' thurs Chesterton-See Eicest-er Chetwode-See Buckingham Chipping Norton-Franklin, 'Plough,' mon. thurs. & sat Chipping Warden-Smith, 'Old George,' mon. thurs. & sat. ; Higham, 'Catherine Wheel,' mon. thurs. & sat Churchill-See Chipping Norton Clattercote-See Claydon Claydon--Berry, 'Unicmn/ mon. & thurs Clifton-Horne, 'Leather Bottle,' mon. thurs. & sat Combroke-Capp, 'White Hart,' thurs Compton Verney-Capp, 'White Hart,' thurs Compton Wynyates-Butcher; see Tysoe Costow-W-ootton, 'Bear,' mon. thurs. & sat.; Watson, ' White Hart,' mon. & thurs Cottisford-See Fringford Coventry-See Southam Cropredy-Tasker, 'Flying Horse,' mon. wed. thurs. & sat.; Cherry, 'Unicorn,' mon. thurs. & sat Croughton Jackman, 'White Hart,' mon. & thurs Crowfield-See Syresham Culworth-Parish, 'Bear,' mon. thurs. & sat. through Thorpe Mandeville ; Beazley, 'Bear,' m on. & thurs Daventry-Marriott, see Woodford; Lord, see Byfield; Mail c.art,parcels may be left at the ' George & Drngon' Deddington-Callow, 'White Hart mon. wed. thurs. & sat. calls at 'Jolly Weavers'; Hone, 'Leathern :Bottle,' thurs. & sat. ; Deeley, '.Angel,' mon. thurs. & sat. ; Talbott, ' Old George,' thurs Drayton- see Wroxton Dun's Tew-Jones, 'Waggon & Horses,'mon. thurs. & sat Eatington-Parker, 'Plough,' thurs Edcote Higham, ' Catherine WheeV mon. thurs. & -sat.; Hunt, 'Wagon & Horses,' mon. & thurs Edgehill-Postman Enstone Lodge ' Swan inn,' thurs. & sat. ; Eeles, ' Buck & Bell,' mon. thnrs. & sat Epwell-:Marsh, 'Old George,' mon. thurs. & sat. ; .Alcock, 'Leathern Bottle,' mon. thurs. & sat Evenley-See Brackley Eydon-Hunt, 'Wagon & Horse>~,' mon. & thur& F:u-nborough-Hartwell, 'Plough,' mon. wed. thurs. & sat Farndon-Marriott, ; Crown,' mon & thurs Farthinghoe Cook, 'Leathern Bottle,' mon. & thurs. ; L. & N.W.R Fenny Compton-Edwards, 'Reindeer,' mon. & thurs.; Fenny Compton wharf, Knight, 'Angel,' mon. & thurs Fewcott.-Bennett, 'Wagon & Horses,' mon. & thurs. ; see Souldern Finmere See Erackley Fringford-Grantham, 'Old George,' thurs. ; Bicester, tues. ; to Cottisford, Stratton Audley & Hethe, thurs Fritwell-Bennett, • Wagon & Horses,' mon. & thurs. ; to Bicester, fri. ; to Oxford, sat. ; see Souldern Gaginwell-See- Enstone Gaydon-Gardner, Windmill,' thurs Glympton Jones, 'Wagon & Horses,' mon. thurs. & sat. Goddington-See Fringford Great Tew-Lindsey, 'Catherine Wheel,' mon. thurs. & sat Greatworth-Humphris, 'Bear,' mon. & thurs.; Stanton, 'Lea.thern Bottle,' mon. thur.s. & sat Greens Norwn-:Bodily, 'Bear,' thurs HaJse Humphris, see Grea.tworth Hanwell-Watts; 'Reindeer,' mon. thurs. & sat.; Hazlewood, ' Windmill,' daily Harbury-Haynes, ·Plough,' thurs.; G.W.R.; Manning, ' Fox,' thurs Hardwick-Postman, daily Helmdon-Kelcher, 'Unicorn,' mon. thurs. & s-at. ; Watson, 'White Hart,' mon. & thurs. through Sulgrave Hempton-Kelcher, 'Unicorn,' mon. thnrs. & sat.; Watson, 'White Hart,' mon. & thurs. through Sulgrave Hempton-Dicks, 'White Hart,' thurs•. & ~at. ; Enoch~ 'Bear,' mon. & thurs Hethe-Grantham, · Old George,' thurs Heyford (Lower)-Boddington, 'Catherine Wheel,.' IDQn. & thurs Hinton-Marriott, ' Crown,' mon. & thurs Hinton-in-the-Hedge.s-Se·e Chorlton Hook Norton-Bunce, 'Wagon & Horses,' mon. tues. thurs. & sat. ; Luckett, ' Plough,' mon. thurs. & sat Horley-Matthews, 'Windmill,' thurs. see Hornton Hornton-Gilkes, '.Angel,' mon. thurs. & sat.; Rainbow, 'Coach & Horses,' mon.& thurs.; Gardener, 'Unicorn/ mon. thurs. & sat Kiddington-J ones, 'Wagon & Horses,' mon. thurs. & sat. ; to Oxford, wed. ; 'Veston. 'Wagon & Horses,' mon. thurs. & sat Kidlington-See Steeple .Ast-on Kineton-Capp, 'White Hart,' thurs.; to Warwick,. tues. ; Leamington, sat King's Sutton-Baker, 'Old George,' daily; Barber, 'Fox,' daily, see Charlton Kirtlington-Weston, 'Wagon & Horses,' mon. & thm•s. see Heyford Kislingbury-See W oodford Knightcote.--Lloyd, 'Wagon & Horses,' thurs.; l3unce,. 'Wagon & Horses,' thurs.; Borton, 'Wagon & Horses," thurs. ; Pickering, 'Plough,' mon. & thurs Ladbrook-See· Southam Launton-See Bicester Ledwell~Jones, 'Wagon & Hors·es,' mon. thurs. & sat. see Sandford Litchborough-See Woodford Long Compton-Walton, 'Catherine Wheel,' mon. &;. thurs. ; Moreton, tues.; Chipping Norton, wed Little Compton-Walton, 'Catherine Wheel,' mon. &- thnrs. ; Jarrett, 'Plough,' thurs.; see Whichford Long Itchington-See Southam Maidford-See Northampton Marsh Gibbon-See Fringford & L. & N.W.R Marston St. Lawrenc~Humphris, 'l3ear,' mon. & thurst. ; to Buckingham, sat. ; Barber, ' Fox,' daily Marton-See Sontham Middle Aston-Weston, 'Wagon & Horses,' mon. & thurs.; see Steeple Aston l\Iiddleton Cheney-Penn, 'Leathern l3ottle,' daily; Bonham, 'Old George,' daily; Thenford, daily; J. H. Bonham, 'Fox,' mon. thurs. & sat Middleton Stoney-See Hayford Milcombe See Wigginton & Hook Norton; Powell, 'Unicorn,' mon. & thur:s. ; Hawkes, 'Angel,' tues. & sat Milton-Stanton, 'Leathern Bottle,' daily Mollington-.Archer, 'Dog & Gun,' mon. thurs. & sat.; Horn, 'Buck & Bell,' mon. thurs. & sat Moreton-in-Marsh-Allen, 'White Hart,' mon. & thurs Moreton Pinkniey-Franklin, 'Bear,' thurs.; Kinch,. 'Leathern Bottle,' mon. & thurs; Northampton, sat Napton-Shepherd, Angel,' thurs. through Southam N ethercote Postman, every day Newbottle See Charlton N orthampton-See Adstone, Moreton Pinkney & L. &. N.W.R North .Aston-Gibbard, 'Wagon & Horses,' thurs.; Eoddington, 'Catherine Wheel,' mon. & thurs North End-Bourton, 'Wagon & Horses,' thurs.; Lloyd. 'Wagon & Horses,' thurs.; Wickham, 'Reindeer,' mon. & thurs. ; Leamington, sat.; Harrison, 'Wagon &, Horses,' mon. & thurs.; Pearson, ''Vagon & Horses," thurs NortJhNewington-Busby, 'Old George,'mon. thurs. & sat Over Norton-Allen, 'White Ha.rt,' mon. & thurs.; Shinston, fri. ; Moreton, sat Overthorpe Bonham, ' Old George,' mon. & thurs Oxford-Great Western Railway; Day, see Sandford; WestQn, Steeple As·ton, sat. ; J ones, 'Wagon &. Horses,' wed Oxhill-Rou~. 'Catherine Wheel,' thurs. ; Stratford-on- .Avon, fri. ; :Butcher, see Tysoe Over Worton--Jones, 'Wagon & Horses,' mon.thurs.&sat Pillerton-Lamb, 'Reindeer,' thurs. ; Leamington. tues.; Warwick, sat Preston Bissett-See Buckingham Preston Capes-See Woodford Princethorpe See Southam Purston-See Middleton Cheney ' .

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. B.ANBURY. .29 Prior's Bardwick-Wilkins, 'White Hart,' thurs. ; Tackley-See Beyford to Leamington, tues. & fri Thenford-Bonham, ' Old George,' mon. thurs. & sat Prior's 1\Iarston-Dumbleton, 'Whit-e Hart,' thurs.; to 1 'l'horp Mandeville-See Culworth, Eydon & Sulgrave Daventry, mon.; West, 'Plough,' thurs.; to Learning- 'l'oddenham-See Whichford ton, tues. & sat 'I'owcester-See Brackley, Helmdon, Moreton Pinkney, Radsrone See Brackley Syresham, Weston-by-Weedon & Northampton & BanRadway-Green, 'Plough,' mon. & thurs.; to Warwick bury railway & Leamington, wed .. & sat Tusmore-See Fringford Ratley & Upron-Barnes, 'Flying Horse,' mon. thurs. & Twyford Wharf-See King's Sutton sat.; Cox, 'Windmill,' mon. thurs. & sat.; French, Tysoe Hirons, 'Dog & Gun,' thurs.; to Warwick & 'Dog & Uun,' thurs. & sat Leamington, tues.; Butcher, 'Plough,' mon. thurs. & Rollright (Great)-Farbrother, 'Windmill,' thurs. ; sat.; to Stratford-on-Avon, fri. through Shenington, Chipping N orton, wed .Alkerton, Pillerton & Eatington ; Eden, ' Dog & Gun,' .Rugby-See Byfield thurs. ; Gardner, 'Reindeer,' mon. thurs. & sat Sandford Jones, 'Wagon & Horses,' mon. thurs. & Wappenham-Bodiley, 'Bear,' thurs.; Kelcher, 'Unisat. ; Woodstock & Oxford, wed. ; Day, 'Plough,' corn,' tues thurs.; Oxford, wed. & sa.t Wardington-Mainwood, 'Leathern Bottle,' mon. thurs. Shenington-Smith, 'Buck & Bell,' mon. thurs. & sat & sat.; Davies, 'Angel,' mon. thurs. & sat.; Higham, Shipston-on-Stour-See. Brailes, Long Compton & Cher- 'Catherine Wheel,' mon. thurs. & sat.; Lines, rington 'Catherine Wheel,' mon. thurs. & sat Shotteswell-Sharman, 'Reindeer,' mon. thurs. & sat Warkworth-See King's Sutton & Overthorpe Shutford-Mil!ls, 'Windmill,' mon,l thurs. & sa.t. ; Warmington-Hawtin, 'Reindeer,' mon. thurs. & sat. ; Tustain, 'Unioorn,' mon. thurs. & sat Bull, ''Windmill,' thurs Sibford Ferris Wise, 'Wagon & Horses,' mon. thurs. Warwick-See Kineton, Southam, Avon Dassett, Bishop's & sat. through Broughton, Tadmarton & S'\"'alcliffe Itchington, Shipston, Farnborough, Fenny Compton, Sibford Gower-Sabin, 'Fox,' mon. thurs. & sat Leamington, Pillerton, Prior's Marston, Boddington, Silverstone-See Brackley & Syresham Prior's Hardwick, Radway, Tysoe, Warmington & Somerton-Gibbard, 'Wagon & Horses,' thurs. & Bod- Great "'estern railway dington, 'Catherine Wheel,' mon. & thurs Water Stratford-See Brackley Souldern-Bate, 'White Hart,' mon. thurs. & rrat.; Lett, Weedon Lois-See Weston-by-Weedon 'Angel,' mon. thurs. & sat Weedon Royal-See Woodford. Mail cart parcels may Southam-Tudwood, 'Leathern Bottle,' mon. & thurs. ; be left at ' George & Dragon' Usher, 'Leathern Bottle,' thurs.; Tyler, 'Plough,' Westbury-See Brackley thurs Weston-on-the-Green-See Souldern South Kewington-Nash, 'Bear,' mon. & thurs Weston-by-\Yeedon-Hopkins, 'Angel,' mon. & thurs Steane-See Brackley \Vhichford-Tarver, 'Coach & Horses,' thurs. & sat. ; Steeple Aston-1Veston, 'Wagon & Horses,' mon. & Struch, 'vVheatsheaf,' thurs.; Castle, 'Wheatsheaf,' thurs. ; Oxford, sat thurs Stoke Lyne-Bennett, see Fritwell Whitfield-See Syresham Stony Stratford-See Buckingham Wigginton-Paintin, 'Angel,' m on. thurs. & sat. through Stourton-Jarret, 'Plough,' thurs.; Stratford-on-Avon, Milcombe; Powell, 'Unicorn,' mon. & thurs fri. ; Shipston-on-Stour, sat. ; Moreton-in-Marsh, Williamscote-Tasker, 'Flying Horse,' mon. wed. thurs. tues. ; Chipping Norton, wed. ; Sims, 'Angel,' thurs & sat Stow-on-the-Wold-See Chipping N orton Witney-See Charlbury Stratford-on-Avon-See Kineton, Tysoe, Brailes, Oxhill, \Voodend-Marriott, 'Crown,' thurs.; to Northampton, Pillerton & Shipston sat. ; see Blakesley Stratton Audley-See Fringford ·woodford-Marriott, 'Crown,' mon. & thurs.; Marlow, Sulgrave-Wootton, 'Bear,' mon. thurs. & sat 'Bear,' thurs Sutton-under-Brailes-Godson, see Brailes Woodstock-Great Western railway. Mail cart parcels Swalcliffe-Haynes, ' Fox,' mon. thurs. & sat may be left at ' George & Dragon ' Swerford-Jakeman, 'Leathern Bottle,' mon. thurs. & Wormleighton-Sharpe, 'Plough,' mon. & thurs.; Leasat. ; Stockford, ' Catherine Wheel,' mon. thurs. & mington, sat sat. ; French, 'Leathern Bottle,' thurs. & sat l:Vorton-Enock, see Barford; Day, see Sandford Syresham-Hart, 'Angel,' mon. & thurs Wroxton-Freeman, 'Angel,' m on. thurs. & sat. ; HawTadmarton-Watkin, 'Old George,' mon. thurs. & sat. tin, 'Unicorn,' mon. thurs. & sat through Broughton; Haynes, ' Fox,' mon. thurs. & sat 1 l:Vykham-See Bloxham BANBURY. PRIVATE :RESIDENTS. Bloomfield John W. 3 Marlborough rd Chapple Rev. Jonathan (Wesleyan), Bloxham Wm. Jas. Bath vils.Park rd The Manse, South Bar street .Abbotts Ernest, 2 St. John's place Boissier Arthur Henry, I7 Horsefair Chard Joseph John, St. John's villa, .Abbotts William Hy. 2 St. John's pi Bolton George Thomas,26 Southam rd St. John's ·road - Alien George Samuel, 4 Dashwood te:r Bolton John, 47 North Bar street Chater Mrs. 18 Marlborough place Alien Miss, I Calthorpe road Bolton John Henry, 48 North Bar st Checkley Mrs. 35 Southam road Anchor Samuel, 63 Warwick road Bonner James Henry, Bath road Chesterman Mrs. 40 South :Bar st Arden Rev. Lawrence Eric B.A. (cur- .Bonner Mrs. 27 South Bar sLreet Claridge Chas. Richd. Croach street ate St. Mary's), 5I Queen st.Neithrp Booth John Frederick, 28 Albert st Claridge Thomas, I6 Marlborough pl Askew Miss, 28 South Bar street Booth William, 18 Marlborough road Claridge Mrs. R. 39 South Bar street Atkins Edwa.rd, Hawthorne lodge Boss Thomas Ward,32 Marlborough rd Clarke. Francis, 25 Marlborough road Austin Reginald, 6 Broughton road Boulton Arthur, The Firs, Bath road Clarke Mrs. Bath road Baker Jame-s L. 6 South Bar s~re~t Bowen Rev. Charles John (Catholic), Clarke Miss, 26 Horsefair Baker John William, 30 Bath road Presbytery, South Bar street Clarke M:;:.;.. 16 Horsefair :Baker Mrs. IS Oxford road Baxold Harry, 26 Marlborough road Coates Arth.Na.ces, 22 Marlborough rd Baker William, 44 North :Ba:r street Bradshaw John, 15 Broughton road Coleman Mrs. 16 West Bar street Barford John Phillips, Foscote house Braggins Geo.Frdk.23 Marlborough rd Coleman Tom, Cedar villa, Neithrop Barford Mrs. Dashwood road Brailey Misses,Oxford lodge, Oxford rd Collings Frederick Sam1.33 Castle st Barrows Arthll:l\ Handsworth villa, Bray Edward, Calthorpe villa Co11ins Mr.s. I6 Bath road West Bar street Brickwell Miss, Melbourne villa, West Collins Thomas, 2 .Albert street Barrow Edgar Welch, 6 Dashwood ter Bar street Colville John Wm. Culross, Bath rd Bartlett Hubert, 49 The Green Brockliss Edwd.Langley,I2 Oxford rd Cookes Mrs. 5 Marlborough road Bartlett Joseph, 21 Crouch street Brooks Hy.Regnld.Fryer L.D.S.R.C.S. Cooper William Robt. Warkworth ho Barton John, Prospect vil.Old Parr rd Edin., F.P.S.G. Tintern ho. High st Commin John Hy. Mona vil. Bath rd Barton William John, Calthorpe lodge, Bromley Clement, 43 North Bar st Costick Herbert, 22 West Bar street Oxford road Broughton John, 39 Market place Croft Thomas, 24 Marlborough road Beale Alfred John M.A. The Leys Brown Miss, 18 Parsons street Crosby Edwin John, Neithrop villa Beere Mis. 9 Crouch street Brown Wilks, Bath road Cubbon Rev. Henry B.A. (Congrega~ .Eeesley Thomas, 3I West Bar street Buck Gilbee, 34 Marlborough road tional), r Dashwood terrace Bennett Mrs. 5 Calthorpe road Bush Joseph, Dashwood road Cubitt Thos. Hy. 6 Calthorpe road Betts Henry, I4 .Albert street Butler Mrs. 2 South Bar street Curtis Misses, 41 South Bar street Blackford Miss, 32 Crouch street Carpenter John Hayes, Bath road Dagger Hy. Tracey house, Bath road Bliss George, I West Bar street Cave John Henry, 13 Marlborough pi Dalby Herrick, 18 Calthorpe road :Bills William, so High street Cave Mrs. 12 Bridge street Dale George, 30 Southam road •

30 BANBURY. Davenport John, Brookfield, Bath rd Davis .Alfred, 12 Crouch street Davis Alfd. Thos. Castle lo. Cornhill Davis John, 6 .MarlboroU(gh road Day l\frs. r6 Oxford r·oad Day Raymond, Oxford road Dickason William, Calthorpe villa Douglas George, Calthorpe house, Dashwood road Douglas Wm. Th<Js. Castle ho. Cornhill Doyle Mrs. 26 West Bar street Drak~ EdwJ.rd, rs Calthorpe road Draper Misses, 4 Broughton road Dunnell Allan RGb, 9 Broughton road Edmunds Francis Page, n Oxford rd Edmunds Percy S. 13 South Bar st Edmunds Richard, II North Bar st Edmunds Richard, 14 Broughton road Edmunds Albert Sutcliffe, Southlands, Hightown road Edmunds William, Dashwood lodge, Dashwood road · Edwards Henry James, 40 High street Edwards Waiter Thomas, I The Leys Ekers Charles, I8 Broughton road Elton Rev. Herbert C., M . .A.. (curate of St. Maxy's), 5 Dashwood terrace Evans Samuel, 4 .A.lbert street Federau Miss, The Lindens, Oxford rd Finch Georg~ Fairview road Fingland John, 44 Market place Flowers Horace E. Crouch street Flowers Mrs. 29 West Bar street Flowers William, Box Hedge road Fol'tescue Charles, Woodland Fortescue1 John, 51 The Green Fm:tescue John Smyth, SI The Green Franey Edward, 13 Horsefair French Mrs.Calthorpe ho.Dashwood rd Gaffee Henry, 27 Britannia road Gardner George, Orchard ho.Neithrop Gardner NUrs. 34 Bath road Garrett Thomas, 64 Warwick road Garrett Thomas Edwin D. 61 Broughton road George J()hn, Bath road Gibbs Mrs. I9 Marlborough place. Gibbs Mrs. 29 Ma.rlborough road Gibbs. Mrs. 43 Warwick road Gibbs Robert, 30 Horsefair Gibbs William, 6 Marlborough place Giles Willi3m, 3 .A.lberf; street Gillett Alfred, 2 West Bar street. Gillett Charles, Wood green Gillett John Padbury, Landale, South Bar street Gillett Mrs. The Elms, Oxford road Gillett Jonathan Ashby, The Elms, Oxford road • Gillett Miss, 2 West Bar street Gillett Misses, 20 Oxford road Gillmore .Miss, Bath road Golby Miss, 54 The Green Gclby Miss, 24 Woodgreen ter.Bath rd Goldingham Philip Proctor (curate of Christ Church, Sout~ Banbnry), Fairview road Goodall Stephen, r6 Broughton road Goodbody Robert, r Marlborough rd Goodway Clement Elisha,3 Albert terrace, Newland Graham-Jones Rev. Chas. Edwd.M.A. The Vicarage, South Banbury Graves Mrs. 38 South Bar street Greatrex Joseph, 26 Wood Green terrace, Bath road Greaves Mrs. 23 Oxford road Griffin Innes, 31 Crouch street Gurney Charles, 17 Oxford road Hancock J oseph, 25 Southam road Hancock Mrs. 2 Prospect place Hardy Josh, Ptk. Greenbank,O-xford ... d Harlock John, The Lawn,St. John's rd Harlock Miss, The Lawn, St.John's rd Hart Mrs. 10 North Bar street Hartley Edward J m·vis, 57 High st Hartley William, 32 West Bar street Head Joseph, 22 Broughton road Heming William Waters, 48 High st Herita.ge Mrs. 5 Parsons street 0 X:FORDSHIHE. (KELLY'S Henley Waiter Farrar, Horton In- Powell Mrs. 10 Albert street firmary, Oxford road Pratt Mis:;es, 5 Dashwood terrace Herrieff Charles Francis, The Green Preston Daniel, 33 Marlborough road Hicks Harry John, 28 Marlborough rd Pritchett Edwin, Bath road Higgs George Edward, 4 ~ewland Rake William, 5 Broughton road Hill Rev. Henry (Unitarian), 5 Rathbone Thomas, 30 Marlborough rli Crouch street Raye John Joseph A. (Surg.-Capt. Hill Miss, 29 South Bar street Army Medical Reserve, znd V.B. Hirons Barnes B. 5 Dashwood road Oxfordshire Light Infantry)~ NewHirons Mrls. 23 \-V ood Green terrace, land house, Brood street Bath road Reading Ernest, 25 Wood Gr~n terHitchcock Jn. Clarence ho.West Bar st race, Bath road Hobley Mrs. 25 Horsefair Richards Edward John, 52 The Green. Hobley Henry, Castle street west . Robins Geo. Jn. Stoneleigh, Bath roa<i Hood Stephen, 13 Calthorpe road Robinson Francis Thos. 25 Bridge st Hopkir,s Henry, 28· Southam road Robinson Henry Thos.2o Broughton rct. Hopkins Robt. Hy. 12 Broughton road Rose Thomas, The Bank, Cornhill HJrton William, 8 Broughwn road Rothe Col. George, Neitbrop house,. Hudson James Cattle, Bath road Warwick road Humphrey Mrs. 32 Bath road Salmon William, Gold's vil. NeithroP' Humphries Henry, 14 Marlborough pl Sansom Geo. Edwin, 29 Britannia rd Humphriss George, 29 Southam road Saul Jsph. Mayfield, High Town road Hunt John, 29 Bath road Scarsebrook Jsph. 33 Southam road Hutt Mrs. 2 The Leys Sharp Mrs. 6a, Albert street Johnson Wm. John, 34 North Bar st Sheasby Harry, r6 Southam road Jones James, 23 Albert street Shelton Rev. E. Stanley (Wesleyan),. J ones Lewis, 25 .A.lbert street The. Manse Kench Milt<Jn, Lyncote, Oxford road Shemeld Misses, 28 Bath road Kennedy Edgar, 26 Bridge street Shepherd John Henry L. Eversley Kilby Fredk. Thomas, 22 Southam rd cottage, Bath road Kilby Harry, The Sycamores, \Vest Shilson Charles, Duloe house, Bath Td: Bar street Shilson Chas. J ohnson, I9 Oxford rd .. Kilby Samuel, 21 Southam road Shilson Wm.Shrubland vil.West Bar st.. Kimberley Jas. Snowden, Grafton lo Shihson William, Shrublando vilia., Kimberley Mrs. 26 Britannia road West Bar stree;iJ Lake William Ernest, Bath road Skinner William Jones, Bath road Lamprey Jas. Arthur, 6 Crouch st Sole Thomas, 33 Crouch street Lane Miss, 31 Southam road Sole William, sa, Albert street Legge Edward, 24 South Bar street Smith Hy. Thos. 30 South Bar street Little Mrs. 1 St. John's place Smith Misses Tysoe, The Mount,. Lovell Mrs. 48 The Green Oxford rc-ad Ludlow William, 17 Marlborough pl Smith Mrs. 13 Broughton road Ludwig Herbert J. 3 Dashwood ter Smith Mrs. 54 Warwick road Lumbert Joseph, 18 Oxford road Spencer William, 8 Marlborough pl :M:c.A.ughtry Robert, 42 Warwick road Spokes Miss, 21 Oxford road McNaughton Jsph. Vineyard, Neitbrop Stanley Hemy, Gold's villas, Neithrop Malsbury Joseph, The Limes, West Bar St.anley Mrs. 22 Horsefair Mander Mrs. ta, .A.lbert street Steele Mrs. 23 Southam road Margetts Mrs. 3 Prospect place StsvenSI l\fis5:, 20 Horsefair Marsh Miss, 7 North Bar street Stevens Mrs. so The Green Marshall Edward, so North Bar street, Steve11S Mrs. Easington lo. Oxford rd: Marshalll\frs. 8 Albert street Stock Mrs. 17 West Bar street Marshall Oldfield Sherwin, 20 Mar]- Stockton Jas. South bank, Oxford l'd borough road Stockton Oliver Jas. St. John's road Masca.rd Misses, 41 \Varwick road Stone Henry, Broughton road Matthison William, :2 Dashwood ter Stone Lewis, Wycherley, Oxford road Mawle John, Elmleigh, High Town rd Stowe Alfred, 29 Albert street Maxwell Joseph .A.. 21 Marlboro' rd Stuchbery Benj. I Park villas,I\eithrop• Medley Samuel, 1 Broughton road Stutterd Miss, r8 West Bar street Merry John Loo, 22 Oxford road SykeSJ George Cawthorne, High street Mewburn Wm. D.L., J.P. Wykham pk Symington Jn. Weldon, 28 West Bar st. Miller Sam C. II Broughton :road Symons Edward William, The Holliesr Mills Waiter Edward, The Cottage, Britannin. road Oxford road Tanner Philip, Chesterton lodge, High Mitcalfe Leonard, 10 Calthorpe road Town road Mold John Hy. 28 Britannia road Tayton James Seppings, Rose villa .. Mousir Frdk.Wm.Paignton vil.Bath rd Old Parr road Muscott Edward, 31 Marlborough Td Tearl Levi, Tebworth villa, Bath. rd Nicholson Rev. Thomas (Congrega- Thomas Richd. Rymill, 14 South Bar st tional), 21 Bath Toad Thomas William, Wynnstay house,. Norton John Henry, 24- .A.lbert street South Bar street Olds Henry Thos. 26 Britannia road Thornitt AlbertA. 4 Marlborough road Page Chas. Naseby, 47 South Bar st Thornton Mrs. 2 North Bar street. Page Henry, 12 High street Tim s Miss, 37 Bridge street Page Miss, 53 The Green Tooley Thomas, 22 .A.lbert street Page Richd. Fortnum,1o Broughton -rd Trevor Mrs. 32 Southam road Palmer William, 7 Calthorpe road Trew Miss, 28 Bridge street Partleton Mrs. Ivy cottage, Neithrnp Tustain William, IS Marlborough p1 Payn<!l Edwd. James, 20 West Bar o;;t Vanner John J.P. Springfields Pearce Edwin, 62 Broughton road Wakelin William Tom, 38 'Bridge st Pellatt Danl. Curraghmoore,O:xford Td Walford George, 2r West Bar streeli Pemberton Clarence Lindon Render- Walford Mrs. 4 Dashwood road son M.B. The Green Walford Mrs. West Bar street Perkins Jsph. Fairview vil.Fairview l'd Walford Mrs. 8 Crouch street Perry Ma.-s. The Nurseries, Oxford rd Walker Mrs. Golden villa, Neithrop Phillips Miss, 14 Oxford road Walker Thomas, 23 West Bar st.reetJ Pike Fras Edwards, 8 & 9 Parsons st Wall Ebenezer, 65 Warwick road Pinning John, 8 Calthorpe road Wallace Rev. William Baillie :r.LA. Porter Rev.Chas.Fleetwood:\LA.(vicar 27 Bath road & surrogate), Vicarage, Ho'rsefair 'Vatts Rel'". Isaac (Baptist), 4 CalPossehl Mrs. The Lindens, Oxford rd thorpe road ~

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. BANBURY. 31 Watson George, 39 High street Watts James Branson, Ashland dene, Bath road Whitehorn Jsph. 2 Marlborough road Whitehorn Wm. Lampet, 36 High st Wiles James, 7 Albert street Wise Robert Stanton M.D. I Horscfair 'Voodward Mrs. rs Horsefair 'Vyles George, II Crouch street ·watts Miss, 25 West Bar street Windsor Charles, 6 High street COMMERCIAL. Beale Seymour H. science & art master, secondary division, Banbury Mnnicipal school, Marlborough road .Abbotts Ernest, auctioneer, see Samuel Miller & Abbotts Beale William, carpenter, ro Bear Garden road .Abell Thomas, plumber & gasfitter, 3 North Bar street Beales Anthony & Co. photographers, 5 South Bar street .Adams Henry, wheelwright, Warwick road Beckett John, assistant superintendent to Prudential, 13. Agricultural Association (Oliver James Stockton, treas. Castle street east & sec) Beere Edward, milk dealer, IS North Bar street .Alcock George, baker & beer retailer, 56 Warwick road Beere Edward, teacher of music, 6 Albert street .Aldridge Henry Thomas, brush maker, 7 Broad street Beere Henry, shopkeeper, 32 Cherwell street Alexander Sarah (Miss), shopkeeper, 13 Monument road Beesley W. auctioneer, Corn Exchange, Market place Alexander ·william, tailor, II Albert street Bennett Benjamin, dyer & cleaner, 44 High street Alien John, Fox inn, I Market place Bennett Charles (Mrs.), dress maker, Castle street .Allitt Alfred, confectioner, 7 South Bar street Bennett Henry Freeman, solicitor & commissioner for Ansells Limited, clothiers, 95 High street oaths, 46 High street; deputy borough coroner Anthistle Tom, beer retailer, Britannia road Bennett J. & H. coach builders, I & I4 Bridge street Aplin Frederick Charles B.C.L. solicitor & commissioner Bennett Thomas, beer retailer & haulier, Newland road. for oaths, SI High street Bennett W. Matthew, bone setter, Buck & Bell l'.H. Arnold Winifred (Mrs.), confectioner, 6 Horsefair Parsons street .Ashwell Thomas, draper, 63 High street Bentley Richard James, Horse & Jockey P.H. West Bar st Askew Albert William, baker & grocer & post office, 48 Betts A. Banbury ca.ke maker, purveyor to Her Majesty,. Warwick road 85 High street & at G.W.R. Station Association for the Prosecution of Felons (J. Fortescue & Betts Samuel (Mrs.), cake maker, 70 High street Sons, treasurers & secs) Bidmead Saml. Robt. chimney sweeper, 22 Cherwell st Atkins Charles, wheelwright, Factory street Blackwell Alfred, second-hand clothes dlr.Up. Cherwell s!i Atkins Edward, dealer in oil cake & other feeding stuffs Rlencoe William & Co. Lim. brewery store, Bear inn & sack contractor, Old wharf yard, Market place Atkins Lythall, haulier, I4 Factory street Blencowe Am elia (Mrs.), dress maker, IO Castle st. east Attwood Henry, brickmaker, Broughton road Blencowe Jane (Mrs.), eating house, 64 Calthorpe street Austen & Payne, grocers, 9 High street & Fish street Blencowe Thomas, shopkeeper, Box Hedge road Bailey Samuel, chimney sweeper, Cherwell terrace Bliss & Fisher, solicitors, Horsefair :Baker James L. deputy supt. registrar, 6 South Bar st Bliss George, solicitor & commissioner for oaths, seeBaker John, shopkeeper, 24 Cherwell street Bliss & Fisher Eaker T. Edward, tailor & draper, 59 & 6o Parsons st Bliss William, actuary Ban bury Savings Bank; residence., 13aldwin Snsan (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 69 Calthorpe street 50 High street Baldwin William Charles, jobbing smith, Calthorpe st Bloomfield John W. Red Lion family & commercial hotel 13alfour James Kennedy, travelling draper, I Crouch st & posting house; wine & sirit merchant; good billiard 13anbury Advertiser (George Walford, proprietor; pub. room, three tables, High street thu11sday); office, 72 High street Bodaley Frederick, dairyman, 6 Church lane 13anbury Bank (Gillett & Co.) (Joseph Saul, manager), Boissier Arthur Henry L.R.C.P.Lond. surgeon, see Pemhead office, Cornhill; draw on Glyn, Mills & Co, berton & Boissier London E C Bolton Edwin, dairyman, 23 Queen street, Neithrop Banbury Beacon (George Walford, proprietor; published Bolton John, wool stapler, 47 North Bar street saturday); office, 72 High street Bond John, beer retailer & baker, Cross Cherwell st Banbury District Chamber of Agriculture (Lord North, Bonham Wm. shopkeeper, 28 Boxhedge sq. Neithrop president; T. E. Cobb, treas.; ,V. T. Warner, sec) Bonner James Henry, relieving officer & collector to the 13anbury Friendly Societies Medi,~al Association (Henry Guardians Banbury district & registrar of births &. R. Webb, sec.; Surgeon-Capt. J. J. A. Raye L.R.C.P. deaths, Banbury sub-district; office, 2 Paradise road,. & L.R.C.S.Ireland, resident medical officer), Broad st Bath, Neithrop :Banbury Guardian (William Potts, propr. & publisher; Banner William, insurance agent, Milton street published thursday); office, SI Parsons st.. See advt Boote Thomas Henry, butcher, B Church lane Banbury High Class School for Boys (Herr H. M. Hain, Boss Thomas Ward, printer, Exchange hill head master), 19 Calthorpe road Boxold Harry, seedsman & fruiterer, 69 High street lJanbury Industrial Co-operative Society Lim. (Henry Boxold James, wholesale fruiterer, 53 Warwick road James Cooke, manager), Broad street Boxold Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 37 North Bar street Eanbury Laundry (James Byrne, propr.), 38! Parsons st Boyles John, Swan inn, 3 South Bar street Banbury Municipal School, secondary & technical divi- Bradshaw Philip, miller (water) & farmer, Wykham milJ .. sion (S. W. Symons M.A. head master; visiting & corn chandler, 32 Bridge street masters Architecture & building construction, W. Braggins G. F. & Co. gate manufacturers, Gatteridge st E. Mills esq. A.R.I.B.A.; plumbers' work & sanitation, Brailey Helen M. & Jane E. (Misses), ladies' school .. W. I. Harding ; science & art division, Seymoure H. Oxford lodge, Oxford road lJeale, head master; W. L. Whitehorn esq. hon. sec. ; Brain John, beer retailer, 55 Calthorpe street Joseph Parrish, assistant secretary), Marlborough rd. Brewin William Henry, beer retailer, 28 Broad street See Schools for list of other masters Bricknell William, jun. cabinet maker, 45 North Bar ST Banbury Old Bank (Timothy Rhodes Cobb & Son), I2 Briggs William, hair dresser, 2 Fish street High street ; draw on London & Westminster Bank Briggs William, shopkeeper, II Broad street Limited, Lothbury, London E C Bromley Clement, jun. plumber, 9 North Bar ~tr~et Banbury Pianoforte Co. pianoforte dealers (John Henry Brooks HenryReginaldFryer L.D.S.R.C.S.Edin. F.P.S.G .• Kay, manager), 22 High street R.C.S.Irel. surgeon-dentist, 37 High street Banbury Railway Guide (monthly) (Messrs. Cheney & Broughton & Wilks, ironmongers, 37 & 39 Market plnrer Sons, publishers), 5 Butchers row Brown E. Wilks, confectioner, 12 Parsons street Banbury Telegraph (Thomas Vaughan, proprietor; pub- Brown Henry, agent to Singer Manufacturing Co. 6r: lished thursdays), office, Market place Bridge street Banbury Woollen Tweed Co. Limited (The) (Samuel Brown John, dining rooms, 59 Bridge street Medley, sec.), The Factory Bro\m Richard Guest, maltster. I4a, Low. Cherwell sf Bannard Stephen, Henry & James, plum hers &c. 6 & 7 Brummitt Robert & Sons, toy d~lers, 57 Parsons street Bridge street Bryan Henry William, hair dresser, 28~ Parsons street :Barclay M. & J. (Misses), boarding & day school, Bucks & Oxon Union Bank Limited (branch) (HenrySydenham house Page, manager), 12 High street; draw on London & Earrett Thomas, beer retailer & shopkeeper, Windsor st Westminster Bank Limited, Lothbury, London E C Barrows & Co. Limited, engineers, Cherwell works ! Budd Thomas, watch maker, 16 Parsons street Bartlett Hubert, chemist & druggist, 1:2 Market place Bull Harry, coach builder, Up-per Cherwell street Bartlett Joseph, shopkeeper, II Calthorpe street Bull William, shopkeeper, 24 Broughton road Bartlett Lewis William, photographer, 23 High street Buller William, farmer, Neithrop fields Eartlett Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 42 Fish street Bullock F. H. butcher, 7 Church lane Bateman Walter, commission agent, collector to the Ban- Busby Harry, 'White Horse commercial hotel & agent to bury Gas Co. & agent to Sutton & Co. 6 Butchers row Messrs. Lucas, Blackwell & Arkwright, brewers (Lea~ :Beale Alfred .T., M.A. boarding school, Ark ho. The Leys mington) & wine & spirit merchants, High street

:BAN!ORY. OXFOBDSHIRE, Busby Septimus Robert, tailor, 4B Parsons street Busby Solomon, tailor, I Oxford road Bush Joseph, grocer & wine & spirit merchant, Cornhill Bush J oseph, colliery agent, linseed, cotton cake merchant, Cornhill Butler Henry, insurance agent, Calthorpe road Butler Henry Vincent, fruiterer, 49 :Bridge street Eutler :Matilda (Mrs.), beer retailer, 2 Southam road :Butler Thomas Charles, butcher, 30 Parsons street :Butler 1Villiam, market gardener, Broughton road :Butler William, plumber, 6 Southam rd. & Warwick rd Bygrave Thos. Oliver, Wagon & Horses P.H.Butchers rw Byrne James, propr. of Banbury laundry, 28~ Parsons st Bywater Robt. blcksmth. 5 Bridge st. & Up. Cherwell st Cakebread George Henry, monumental mason, n Compton street & Korth Bar Cakebread Wm. confectnr. & sign writer, 20~ High st Carpenter Charles. florist, Britannia Road nursery Carpenter John Hayes, cabinet maker, rg Parsons street Carter George, mineral water manufacturer & tobacconist, 35 North Bar street Carter Richard, shopkeeper, Foundry street Carter Samuel (Mrs.), china, glass &c. dealer, 52 High st Cash Drapery Stores (The), linen drapers (F. E. Pike, manager), 8 & g Parsons street Castle George, Son & Booth, auctioneers, 25! High st Cave Charles, Albion P.H. 74 Bridge street Cave William, agent to the G.W.R. Goods Receiving office, 8 Bridge street Cemetery (Jamts Ohver Stockton, cle!·k tu the burial board; Fredk. Adey, supt.; T. E. D. Garrett, registrar), Southam road Chambers & Co. boot & shoe warehouse, 33 Bridge street Chard Bernard Samuel, Reindeer P .H. 47 Parsons street Chard Joseph John, tobacconist, 62 Parsons street Chard Wm. corn & coal mer. & canal carrier, 2 Market pi Cheney & Sons, printers, 5 Butchers row Claridge. & moxham, builders, contractors & merchants, Steam Saw mills & Joinery works, I Warwick road. See advertisement Claridge James & Co. confectioners, 18 Parsons street Claridge Alfred, statuary mason, 35 Broad street Clarke Francis, agricultural seedsman, Cornhill Exchange &; Bridge street wharf O!arke Shadrick, feather cleaner, 47 Bridge street Clarke Stephen, shoe maker, 19 Newland place Cleaver Asa, baker & shopk€eper, 59 Calthorpe street Clifford Richard, horse dealer, 17 Bath road Clow Ellen Mary (Mrs.), dress maker, 8B High street Clow James, seedsman, 88 High street Cluff Ernest Edward, boot manufacturer & leather seller, 53 Bridge street Olutterbuck Charles William, tailor, 21 Newland place Colegrove Mary (Miss), ladies' school, Dashwood house, Dashwood road Coleman Tom & Edward Henry, Castle Vine Vaults P.H. <Jornllill Coleman T. W. Lim. wllolesa·le grocers & wine & spirit mercllants, Parsons st. & retail grcrs. 2 Calthorpe st Coleman Henry, hair dresser, 38 North Bar street Coll~tt William A. mattress maker, 33 North Bar street Co1linge Frederick Samuel, solicitor, see Kilby & Mace Commin John Henry, carver & gilder, High street Conservative Club (J. S. Tayton, hon. sec.; Alfred Hawkins, custodian), 25 High street Cooke Hy. Jas. mangr. of Co-operative Society, Broad st Cooper George, greengrocer, 54 Calthorpe street Cooper William Robert, resident manager of gas works, Warkworth house Corn Exchange (T. W. Boss, keeper), Market place Corporation Sewage Works, Lower Cherwell street CottereH Albert Henry, plumber, Lower Cherwell street Cotterell Mary Ann (Mrs.),Leathern Eottle P.H.Bridge st County Court (His Honor T. W. Snagge, judge; John & Charles Fortescue, joint registrars; George Gardner, high bailiff; Thomas Nichols & Frederick Dates, subbailiffs), Town hail Cox James, beer retailer, 59 Calthorpe street 'Cox Mary Ann (Mrs.), beer ret. 26 Boxhedge sq.Neithrop Cox Sarah (Mrs.), linen draper, 25 Parsons street Craddock Alfred, boot maker, 38 Parsons street 'Craddock Susannah (Miss), registry office for servants, 38 Parsons street Cripps Frederick, wardrobe dealer, r Calthorpe street Crosby Edwin J. ale & porter brewer & wine & spirit merchant, 64 Fish street Crosby Edwin .T. <Joach & Horses P.H. (Frederick Wm. Goodway, manager), Butcher's road Croton William Alfred, beer retailer, Lower Cherwell st Croxton Jesse, baker, 33 Castle street Cubitt, Son & Co. livery plush & furniture velvet manu~ facturers, Horsefair Curtis G. & A. photog.raphers & stationers, 17 Parsons at Cnrtis Emma (Miss), dress maker, 9 Prospect road Curtis John, shopkeeper, .52 Fish street Curtis S. E. (Mrs.), fancy draper, II High street Curtis Tllomas, accountant, II High street Curtis Thomas Henry, Fleur de Lis P.H. Broad street Curtis William Edison, carver & gilder & newsagent, 3 & 4 Church lane <Jutcliffe Eliza (Mrs.), wardrobe dealer, 54 Eroad street Dagger Henry, supt. to the Prudential Assurance <Jo, Tracey house, Bath road Dalby & Co. timber merchants, Eridge wharf Danish Dairy Co. butter dealers, 7 Market plaoo Davids & Moxwell, ·land agents & surveyors, 21 Marlborough road Davids Charles Henry, land agent & surveyor & hon. sec. to the Horton Infirmary, see Davids & Moxwell Davis Alfd. Thos. surgeon-dentist, Castle lodge, Cornhill Dawson Nathaniel Holmes, borough surveyor & inspector of nuisances & canal boats, Town hall Day J ane (Mrs.), tripe dress-er, Castle street Day N. (Miss), milliner, 43 High street Denchfteld William, farmer, Easington farm, Oxford rd Deverill Henry, seed grower & merchant, Royal Seed establishment, Cornhill Dew Mrs. ladies' nurse, 53 Oxford road Dossett W. G. & Co. grocers & wine & ale merchants, 33 & 34 Parsons street & 53 North Bar street Douglas William Thomas, surgeon & medical officer to the workhouse, Cornhill Dowswell Geo. Hy. hair dresser, 12! South Ear street Drake Edward, commercial traveller, 15 Caltborpe road Draper Eliza- (Mrs.), dairy, 5 Broad street Draper Henry David, dairyman, 16 South Bar street Duckett Elijah, beer retailer, Mill lane Dumbleton Fredk. Wm. boot & shoe ma. 7 Parsons st Dunkin Frederick Waiter, printer, 22~ Bridge street Dunn William Henry, saddler, 19 Bridge street Dunnell Robert & Sons, brewers & spirit merchants, Old Brewery, North Bar str.eet Durran Edward Humfrey, watch maker,. 36 Market place Durran Eustace, watch maker, go & 91 Higll street Durrant John, boarding & day scllool, Horsefair Dutt George, tea dealer, 51 North Bar street Eagleston Edward, coal merchant, Great Western station Eastmans Limited, butcllers, 14 High street Eaves <Jllarles, boot maker, 5 Oxford road Edmunds & Kench, millrs.(steam &; water), Banbury mills Edm unds Richd. & Sons, seed merchants, 34 Bridge st Edmunds Rd. accountant & auditor, 14 Broughton road Edwards Henry .James L.R.C.P. & B.Edin. surgeon, see Franey & Edwards Edwards Walt. Thos. survyr. of taxes, xg Marlborough rd Ellard William, saddler & beer retailer, 38 Fish street Elleman Francis, shopkeeper, 4 West Bar street Enock Allen Edward, house decorator, :2 Paradise road Essex Chas. Brewers' Arms P.H. & baker, 20 N. Bar st Evins Thomas, chimney sweeper, 19 Foundry street Fairfax Wm. & Sons, mat & basket makers, 5 Horsefair Fairfax Arthnr, solr. & comm. for oaths, 29 Bridge 11t Fell Frederick William, beer retailer, 40 Calthorpe st Field Henry, pork butcher, 21 High street Fin~land John, manager of Metropolitan (of England & Wales) Bank, Lim. 44 Market place Fire Brigade (Volunteer) (established 1870) (E. J. Crosby, capt. ; J. Hawtin .& C. Fortescue, lieuts. ; A. R. Dunnell, hon. sec. ; Lieut. C. Fortescue, hon. treas.), Fire engine & escape station, rB Horsefa.ir Fisher Edward Lambley, solicitor, see Bliss & Fisher Fleming Thomas, furniture dealer, 40 Bridge street F1etcher George Henry, painter, ~3 Crouch street Flick Richard William, brewer, Parsons street ; & maltster, Lower Cherwell street Flowers C. & H. butchers, 20 High street Flowers Harry, butcher, 45 Bridge street Ford <Jharles, hair dresser, Bridge street Fortescue & Sons, solicitors, 45 High street Fortescue Chas. (firm, Fortescue & Sons), solicito-r, commissioner for taking the acknowledgments of married women & commissioner for oaths & joint registrar of county court & clerk to the borough &; county magistrates, joint clerk to Charity Trustees & deputy coroner for the Northern district of the county, 45 High street Fortescue John (firm, Fortescue & Sons), solicitor, commissioner for oaths, clerk to the commissioners of taxes for the borough, & joint registrar of county court, 45 High street Fortescue John Smyth (firm, Fortescue & Sons), solici~ tor & commissioner for oaths, joint clerk to charity · trustees, 45 High street

DIRE0TORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. BANBURY. 33 Foster Joseph, insurance agent, 39 Broad street i Harris Wi!Ham, shopkeeper, 7 Box Hedge sq. Neithrop Fosters' Parcel Express Co. Lim. (Mrs. Fanny Skinner, Hawkins Elizabeth (Mrs.), second-hand clothes dealer, agent), 2 Market place 7I Warwick road Fox Arthur Edward, chemist, 23 Parsons street Hawtin Jas. plumber & ho. decorator, I4 Castl-e st. east Fox Charles, wood turner, 40 Cherwell street Haycock William Havilah, tailor & registrar of marriageii Fox George, Catherine Wheel P.H. Bridge street for the Banbury district, I6 Albert street Fox John, gardener & seedsman, 45 Warwick road Hayden & Son, shoeing smiths, Castle street west Francis Ann (Mrs.), draper & milliner,17 & 17~ Market pl Haynes John, quarry owner, 27 Southam road Franey & Edwards, surgeons, 13 Horsefair Hayward Jane (Mrs.), Wh-eatsheaf P.H. 68 Fish street Franey Edwd. surgeon & medical officer of health, Ban- Hayward John, hair dresser & toy dealer, 58 High st bury Rural District Council, see Franey & Edwards Hazlewood E. (Mrs.), dress maker, I6 Gatteridge street Franklin Alfred Ezekiel, White Hart P.H. 27 Bridge st He:fford Wm. boot ma.77 High st.& fellmonger, Castle st Fr-eeman, Hardy & Willis Lim. boot & shoe makers, Heming William 'Vat-ers, solicitor & commissioner for 8 High street oaths, clerk to the guardians, assessm-ent & school Friswell James, .Ang.el inn, 41 Market pla~e attendance committees, & supt. registrar of Banbury Frost Thomas, upholsterer, I5a, Cherwell street union, clerk to the Highway Board & Rural Di:~.trict Fulford Peter, watch maker, 65 Bridge street Council, 47 High street Furrents Philip, beer :vetailer, 64 Broad street Hemming Henry, draper, 31 & 32 Parsons street Galpin Percy E. assistant master Banbury municipal Henley Waiter Farrar M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Llmd. school, I5 Gatteridge street house surgeon, Horton Infirmary, Oxford road Galpin William John, tailor, 15 Gatteridge street Heritage & Co. wine vaults, 6 Parsons stree.t Gardener William, shopkeeper, 58 Warwick road Hicks Joseph, linen draper, 14 :Market place & a3 High st Gardner George, high bailiff to Banbury county court, Higgs G. E. & Co. wheelwright & gate maker, NorthBar Orchard house, Neithrop Hill John & Co. mohair & plush manufrs. r6 North Bar st Gardner Sarah (Miss), fancy -repository, 35 High street Hill & Elliott, draper.s, 50 Parsons street Garrett Thomas Edwin Dobbins, borough accountant, Hill Benjamin, beer retailer, 46 ParsQns street Town hall; res. Broughton road Hillier Rose (Miss), d'ress maker, 27 Broad street Gascoigne George, cabinet maker, 1\farlborough road Hillier ·waiter, tailor, 27 Broad street Gascoigne John, butcher, Foundry road, Neithrop Hilton Stephen, boot & shoe warehouse, I & 76 High st Gascoigne Smith, fruiterer, 8 Butchers row Hirons Barnes B. farmer, 5 Dashwood road Gayton Bessie (Miss), dress maker, 9 Albert street General Supply Stor-es Co.(A.N.Coates, man.),23 Cornhiil Hitchcox Marmaduke George, Jolly Weavers P.H. 22 South Bar street Gibbs John, cabinet maker, Pepper alley, Fish street & I 4 Newland place Hobbs James, sh()pkeeper, 29 Crouch street Gibbs Robert Henry, fishmonger, 15 Parsons street Hobday Mary (Mrs.), ladies' nurse, 43 Calthorpe. street Gilkes Frederick George, chemist, 18 High street Hobley Henry, builder, 20 Castle street west Gillett & Co. bankers (Joseph Saul, man.); head office, Hodges Harry, higgler, Angel Inn yard, l\larket place Cornhill ; draw on Glyn, Mills, Currie & Co. Lndn.E c Hodson John, boot maker, 7 Horsefair Girling Sarah Ann (Mrs.), wardrobe dealer, Fish street Holbeach Allan, Buck & Bell P.H. Parsons street G-odfrey Harry, beer retailer, Calthorpe street Holland Rechab, boot & shoe warehouse, 58 Parsons st Golby Margaret Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Neithrop Holland Wm. rope & twine maker, II Southam road Golby Wm. George, commercial traveller, 3 Horsefair Hollowell Charlotte (Miss), shopkeeper, 9 Bath road Goodman Thos. Richard, chemist, 5 High street Holt Andrew, butter & egg dealer, 27 Bridge street Good way Clement Elisha, coach maker, Fish street Holton Fredk. Thos. saddler, 6o! High st. & 5 Southam rd Goodway Fredk. Wm. Coach & Horses P.H. Butchers row Hone John, coal dealer, Neithrop & Great Western statu Goodway Tom, house decorator, IS Castle street east Hood Stephen & Edwin Hy. ironmonger~, 35 Bridge st Gostick S. E. (Mrs.), baby linen warehouse, 8I High st Hooper Richard, Unicorn inn, Market place Grant Thomas, hair dresser, Church lane Hooton William, shopkeeper, 39 North Bar street Grant Thomas, ironmonger, smith & machinist, gas & Hopcraft Alfred (exors. of), ale & porter brewers & wine electric bell fitter, I3 North Bar street & spirit merchants, 63 Fish street Grantham Edward, beer retailer, Mill •lane, & boat pro- 1 Hopkins Henry, surveyor, 28 Southam road prietor, Old wharf Hordern Harry, dentist, I9 High street Graves Joseph, linen draper, 4 Parsons street Horton Infirmary (C. L. H. Pemberton, E. Franey & Great Western Goods Receiving Office (William Cave, Innes Griffin, hon. medical officers ; Robert Heyga tes agent), Bridge street Brooks, hon. surgeon-dentist; C. H. Davids, sec.; Green William, butcher, I .& 2 Church lane Walt-er Farrar Henley M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. Gregory George, seedsman & florist, 40 Warwick road house surgeon; Miss Elizabeth Gardner, matron), Gregory Geo. jun. mrkt. grdnr. & fruitert~r, Foundry st Oxford road Gregory John, market gardener, Prospect road Huggins Samuel, baker, 66 Calthorpe street Gregory Mary Elizabeth (Miss), registered office for Hughes ~iary T. (Miss), dress ma. 8 Castle street west servants, 32a, High street Hughes Samuel, rent collector, 24 S.outham -road Gregory William, dairyman, 36 Warwick road Humphries Charles, booot maker, 9 Warwick road Griffin Innes, surgeon & medical officer of health to Hnmphries Hy. engineer & millwright, North Bar works town council & medical officer & public vaccinator, Humphris John, hair dresser &c. 63 Bridge street Banbury district, 3I Crouch street Humphris Jsph. carpenter, 2I Brought.on rd.& Queen's rcr Griffin John, butcher, 33 High street Humphris Joseph, wholesale & retail hay, corn & coal Griffin Richard, dairyman, IO South Bar street dealer, Castle wharf Grimmett Frank, photographer, II South Bar street Humphriss Henry, shopkeeper, 43 Parsons street Rain Herr Heinrich Maria, professor of languages & Humphriss John, shopkeeper, 46 North Bar street te~her of music, 19 Calthorpe road 1 Hunt, Edmunds & Co. brewers, maltsters & wine & Hall Lucy (Miss), dress maker, 34 Church lane spirit merchants, Bridge street Hall Samuel, boot maker, I] Church lane I Hunt Benjamin, boot & shoe maker, .82 High street Hamer William, plumber, Bath road Hutchings James, basket maker, 2 Castle street Hancock Frederick, hair dresser & grinder, 47 Bridge st Hyde Brothers, tailors & drapers, 38 Market place Hancock Elijah, Weavers' Arms P.H. Oxford road Hyde John, shipping agent, 38 Market place Handy Emily (Miss), district nurse, I St. John's place Hyde William, shopkeeper, 37 Fish street Hankinson Thomas, pork butcher, 92 High street Inns David, boot maker, 26 Castle street west Harding Benjamin, watch maker, 58 Fish street International Tea Co. grocers, 93 High street Harding William .lames, plumber & decorator, 6o I Irving Robert, draper, 54 Bridge street & 6r Broad street Ivens Thomas, farmer, Wykham Harlock Arthur John, linen draper & furnishing ware1 Jarvis Andrew, Duke of Wellington P.H. War-wick road house, 3 Parsons street Jarvis James, insurance agent, 55 Parsons street Harper A. & Son, pia.noforte warehouse & organ builder, Jarvis Joseph (exors. of the late), furnishing ironmontuner & repairer, I Broad street gers, 55 Parsons street Harris George, linen draper, 22 Parsons street Jarvis Thomas (Mrs.), printer, 2I Bridge street Harris Miss, dress maker, 49 North Bar street Je:ffery George, Crown P.H. Bridge street Hartley Edward Jarvis, bookseller & stationer & stamp Jelfs "-m. Clarke, Crown inn, & butcher, 6r Warwick rd distributor, 57 High street Jenkimon "\Villiam, draper, II & I5 Church lane Hawkes & Son, coal & coke merchants, Old Town Hall I Jennings Thomas, boot & shoe maker, 2a, Broad street wharf, Lower Cherwell street Johmon William John, cnrrier, North Bar street oxo~. 3

• 84 IANBtl':R.Y, OXFORDSHIRE. (KELLY'S Joines George, greengrocer, 58 Broad street Joine.s James Tew, baker, Fish street Jones Sidney H. & Co. wine & spirit merchants, 23 H()rsefair &i I North Bar s>treet Jones Alfred, gasfitter, 31 Church lane Jones Edward, confectioner, 9 Broad street Jones George, umbrella. maker, 8 Broad street Jones John, plumber & gasfitter, 14 Broad street Jones Percy, organist to Chri&t Church, 42 Broad street Jones Thomas, outfitter, 20 Bridge street Kay John Hy. musical instrument seller, 22 High street Kennedy Eliza (Miss), milliner &c. 37 Parsons street Keal Francis, superintendent of county police & high constable Bloxham hundred, Police station, Newland rd Kenning Edwin, confectioner, 53 High street Keys Henry, coal merchant, Great Western station Kibble Brothers, clothiers, 40 Mal"ket place Kilby F. T. & Co. mineral water mnfrs. 22 Southam rd Kilby & Mace, solicitors, 41 & 42 High street Kilby Harry, solicitor & commissioner to administer oaths, see Kilby & Mace Kilby Samuel, cooper, 21 Southam road Kimberley Eliza (Mrs.), apartments, 13 .Albert street Kimberley Jas. Snowden, bldr. Banbury Steam saw mlls Kingerlee. .Alfd.fancy repos.&fancy drpr. w&nParsons st Kingerlee Thomas Henry, builder, 5 Butchers row Knibbs Mary (Mrs.), dining rooms, 3 Broad street Lake William, tailor, 29 High street Lampitt A. & Co. engineers, millwrights, brass founders & tower bellhangers, Christ Church works Lampitt John & Co. Limited, millwrights, ironfounders & engineers & steam engine manfrs. Vulcan foundry, Neithrop Lamprey & Son, coal mers. & lime burners, Lower Cherwell street Langley John, baker, 42 Market place Lawrence James, watch maker, 52 Bridge street Leatherbarrow Edward, shopkeeper, rg South Bar street Leatherbarrow William, wine & spirit mer. 3 High st Leefe Edith (Miss), dress maker, II Castle street Lett Herbert, manager to CentraJ. Meat Oo. 42 Parsons st Lewis John Tiros, news agent, 68 Bridge str-eet Ley Henry Thomas, baker & herbalist, 36 Church street Liberal Club (P. S. Edmunds & L. W. Stone, hon. secs ), Hors~fair Linfor~ Ann (Mrs.), umbrella maker, 15 West Bar st Linnett Samuel Soden, chemist, 59 Parsons street Litchfield Charles Davis, tobacconist, 70 Bridge street London (The) Central Meat Co. (Herbert Lett, manager ), butchel"&, 42 Parsons street London & County Banking Co. Limited (branch) (Geo. Cawthorne Sykes, manager), 66 High street; draw on head office, 2r Lombard street, London E C London & No:rth Western Railway Parcels Office (John Hnmphries, agent), 24 Bridge street; receiving hous~ (Richard Sansbury, agent), 9 Horsefair Lovell John, coal merchant, Great Western wharf Lovell John, deputy registrar of marriages, Bridge st Lovick Andrew N. school attendance offioer for the borough of Banbury, 3 Queen's .\!treet, Neithrop l.oxley Elizabeth & Fanny (Misses), ladies' underclothing warehouse, 9 South Bar street Lucas, Blackwell & Arkwright, brewers & wine & spirit merchants (Harry Busby, agent), 55 High street Ludditt John Bennett, butcher, 3 Town Hall buildings Ludwig Hy. Wm. Balsaar, pianoforte tuner, 3 Crouch st Ludwig John Henry, berlin wool & fancy repository & tobacconist., 84 High st.& wholesale wareho.IOBroad st Luing William, commercial traveller, 20 Bath road Mabbitt Chas. confectioner & coal mer. 77 Calthorpe st J.iace Thomas, solicitor & commissioner to administer oaths, town clerk, registrar of county court & clerk to the magistrates for Chipping N orton, 41 & 42 High street (firm, Kilby & Mace) Mackl~nArth.Harry,verger to St.Mary's, 16 Castle st. ea. Mackhn George Charl~s, baker, z Town Hall buildings Macklin SamuelGibson, grocer & baker, 21 South Bar st McNaughton Alexander, nurseryman, florist & grape grower, The Vineyard nursery Mr-nder C. & Son,statuary masons & coal mers.Bridge st Mander Elizabeth (Mrs.), beer retailer, 25 Church lane :Mander John William, custodian Banbury Municipal school, r Marlborough place Manley Geo. Hall, shipping & insurance agt-. Bridge st Manning Caroline (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 52 Warwick road Mannock Mary (Mrs.), dress maker, 33 Church lane Maris Thos. swing boat proprietor, Foundry st.Neithrop 1\Iarshall James, beer retailer, 18 Broad st1'eet Matthison William, artist, r8 Broughton road Mawle John & Sons, ironmongers, 65 High street Maycock Helen Henrietta (Mrs.), hair dresser, 6o High st Maycock James, grocer, 46 Ilroad street Maxwell J oseph A. land agent & surveyor, see Davids & Maxwell Mead William, web manufacturer, 69 Warwick road Mechanics' Institution (news room open from xo a.m. till ro p.m.; library open fro!ll 10 till IO daily for all subscribers) (Thomas Ward Ilo&s, librarian), Marlborough road Metropolitan Bank (of England! & Wales) Lim. (branch) (John Fingland, manager), 44 Market place; draw on head office, 6o Gracechurch street, London E 0 Midland Clothing Co. tailors, 56 High street Midland Meat Co. butchers, 12 Church street Miles Andrew, coach builder, r4a, Lower Cherwell st Miles John Albert, coach builder, Calthorpe street Millard George, tobacconist, 4 Broad street Miller Sam C. & Abbotts, land agents, auctioneers, surveyors & valuers, 22~ High st. & at Byfield Miller William Henry James, clothier, 6r Parsons street MiHiner Elizh. & Louisa(Misses), dress mas.4a, Albert st Mills Walter Edward A.R.I.B.A. architect, 13 High st Mobbs Robert, beer retailer & baker, Gatteridge street Mobbs William, shoe maker, r6 Calthorpe street Mobley George, wheelwright, South Bar street Mold & Co. photographers, 5 West Bar street Mold Arthur, jobbing gardener, Box Hedge road M old Daniel, coal merchant, Great Western station Mold Ernest Wesley, grocer's traveller, 46 Warwick road Mold Fred, market gardener, Neithrop gardens Mold Harry, market gardener, 35a, Warwick road Mold Joseph Jacques, market gardener, Neithrop Mold Thomas, grocer, 44 Bridge street Mold Thomas William, dairyman, N eithrop gardens Mold William, dining rooms, 34 Market place Moore Mart ha (Mrs.), Bear P. H. Market place Morby & Simper, coal merchants, L.N.W. coal station Morgan John, dairyman, 76 Warwick road Morgan Wm. Martin, auctionr. & furn. dlr. 26 High st Mortimer George, chiropodist, 6o Fish street Moss Isaac, shoe maker, 4 Castle street Mousir & Son, iron, metal & rag mers. Castle st. west Mousir Henry, coal mer. G. W. S. & Castle st. east Mullis Emma (Mrs.), grocer, 15 Broad street Murray John Wm. refreshment house, Market square Muscott Mary Ann (Mrs.), milliner, 4 Hors-efair Nason John Henry, saddler, 67 Broad street Nathan Mark, furniture deal~r & china & glass dealer, 6, 9 & IO Market place Neal John Hy, coal mer. & canal boat propr. Old wharf Neal Robert, boot & shoe maker, 3 Market place Neale & Perkins, ironmongers, 86 & 87 High street Need~e Thomas, boot maker, 27 Fish street Neithrop Association fpr the Prosecution of Felons ( Oliver Jam es Stockton, solicitor; William Tom Wakelin, sec) Neithrop (paid) Fire Brigade (J. Prosser, captain); engine, Boxhedge, Neithrop Nelson Charlotte (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 22 Gatteridge st Nelson Martha(Mrs.),beer retailer, Foundry sq.Neithrop Newberry Sophia Wilmot & Rose Jane (Misses), milliners & dress makers &c. 74 High street Newberry Eliza Patience (:t\.fiss), shopkeeper & dress maker, ro Bath road Newman James, coal merchant, Old wharf Newman Richard, dairyman, Castle street east Newton Wm. W. hosiery manufr. 4 & 5 Nort-h Bar st Nichols .Alfred, boot maker, 54 Fish street North Oxfordshire & Midland Benefit Building Society (H. Kilby, sec.), High street Norton Thomas Jabez, herbalist, 36 Parsons street Nutt William, _shopkeeper, Foundry street, Neithrop Oxford Canal Co. (Jas. Newman, agent), Old wharf Oxfordshire (Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars) Yeomanry Cavalry (!Banbury Detachment, .A. Squadron, Lt. Cecil W. Boyle, commandant; Sergt.-Major Harry Percy, drill instructor) Packwood Lavinia. (Mrs.), dress maker, 62 Queen street Page Charles Naseby M.R.C.V.S.L. veterinary surgeon & veterinary inspector, 47 South liar street Page Henry, manager of branch of Bucks & Oxon Union Bank Limited, 12 High street Page William, White Lion family & commercial hotel & posting house & wine & spirit merchant, High street Painter Brothers linen drapers, 13 Market place Palmer John Scrivener, hosier, 89 High street Palmer Wm. colliery agent, G. W. S. & Low.Cherwell st Pargeter Arthur, tailor, 40 Parsons street Parrish Joseph, assistant ~ec. Banbury Municipal School, r2 Castle street west Paxton & Holiday, auctioneers, valuers & estat~ agents, Broad stree\